Emerald blanket is the dwarf cultivar and its low spreading habit makes it an ideal ground cover shrub.
Carissa green carpet height.
In afrikaans the fruit is called noem noem.
The flowers vary in size up to 35 mm in diameter are pure white and scented like orange blossom.
Foliage is evergreen dark green shiny leathery and thick.
Leaves are leathery a shiny dark green above and paler below 20 60 x 15 35 mm egg shaped oval or almost round.
Grows 10 15 inches tall and can spread about 3 4 feet.
Carissa macrocarpa green carpet green carpet natal plum moderate growing evergreen shrub to 12 15 tall x 4 5 wide.
Carissa macrocarpa green carpet green carpet natal plum moderately fast growing spreading evergreen broadleaf shrub.
It is slow growing.
Macrocarpa deals well with salt laden winds making it a good.
The tips of the leaves are sharply or bluntly pointed and usually with a mucro a thorn like point.
Shrub is densely covered.
Beautiful of foliage flower and fruit the thorny carissa carissa grandiflora is primarily an ornamental but the fruits are edible and enjoyable.
Suggested uses greenhouse drought tolerant beds and borders ground cover.
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.
This shrub reaches 18 tall and spreads 4.
Carissa macrocarpa green carpet natal plum green carpet will reach a height of 0 5m and a spread of 1 5m after 10 20 years.
She refers to three cultivars green carpet which has small leaves on a plant 60cm in height and a metre across horizontalis which has trailing stems of densely arranged leaves and prostrata which produces more side than top growth and spreads across a metre.
It is commonly known as the natal plum and in south africa the large num num.
Prefers sun or partial shade regular water drought tolerant once established.
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.
Carissa macrocarpa is a shrub native to southern africa.
Green carpet is an excellent ground cover with smaller leaves than those of species.