If you have smelled orange blossoms you know what natal plum flowers smell like.
Carissa macrocarpa green carpet natal plum.
The star like flowers are about 2 inches in diameter and have thick waxy petals.
Therefore it is very useful in coastal areas.
This low growing variety forms a dense mat of attractive glossy emerald green foliage set on spiny stems and is accented with sweetly fragrant star shaped bright.
Valuable for the sandy soils along the coast.
Natal plum bush info.
Shrub is densely covered with leaves.
Because of its thick leathery leaves it does not suffer from salt and wind damage.
A structural component of many landscapes in warm winter regions.
It can also be grown in containers.
Tomlinson natal plum carissa macrocarpa tomlinson sku 2281.
Carissa varieties natal plum boxwood beauty and emerald blanket grow slowly can be kept small and have some of the most exquisitely beautiful deep green foliage of all south florida shrubs.
Does well near the ocean makes a very attractive dense.
Carissa macrocarpa green carpet green carpet natal plum moderately fast growing spreading evergreen broadleaf shrub.
It is slow growing.
Carissa macrocarpa green carpet green carpet natal plum.
Natal plum is not related to the true plum prunus domestica but is so named because of the shape and color of the 1 to 2 inch fruits natal plum has ovate leaves that are dark green and leathery with a glossy sheen.
Natal plum carissa macrocarpa green carpet is a low spreading plant that makes an excellent ground cover.
Grandifolia blooms mainly in summer and sporadically all year long so that throughout most of the year you ll have both flowers and pretty little red fruit present on the shrub.
Prefers sun or partial shade regular water drought tolerant once established.
It grows quickly and tolerates a wide range of lighting conditions.
Grows 10 15 inches tall and can spread about 3 4 feet.
Natal plum carissa macrocarpa or c.
Carissa macrocarpa green carpet recommended temperature zone.
This shrub reaches 18 tall and spreads 4.
Carissa macrocarpa green carpet.
Green carpet is an excellent ground cover with smaller leaves than those of species.
Fragrant white star shaped flowers red plum like fruit.
Provides low maintenance forest green foliage with highly fragrant flowers and big fruit.
Moderate growing evergreen shrub to 12 15 tall x 4 5 wide.
During spring summer and fall white fragrant star.
Carissa macrocarpa green carpet low growing natal plum boething treeland farms grows over 1 200 varieties of trees shrubs perennials and specialty plants on ten california nurseries to serve the wholesale landscape and nursery industries throughout the western united states and beyond.
Foliage is evergreen dark green shiny leathery and thick.
All parts of natal plum are poisonous except for the ripe.
