Emerald blanket is the dwarf cultivar and its low spreading habit makes it an ideal ground cover shrub.
Carissa green carpet height.
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.
Foliage is evergreen dark green shiny leathery and thick.
This shrub reaches 18 tall and spreads 4.
Prefers sun or partial shade regular water drought tolerant once established.
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.
The flower tube is hairy within.
It is slow growing.
The flowers vary in size up to 35 mm in diameter are pure white and scented like orange blossom.
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.
Description a vigorous spreading woody shrub with abundant white gummy sap the carissa may reach a height of 15 to 18 ft 4 5 5 5 m and an equal breadth.
Beautiful of foliage flower and fruit the thorny carissa carissa grandiflora is primarily an ornamental but the fruits are edible and enjoyable.
Carissa macrocarpa is a shrub native to southern africa.
Green carpet is an excellent ground cover with smaller leaves than those of species.
In zulu as well as in the bantu tribes of uganda it is called amathungulu or umthungulu obomvu.
In afrikaans the fruit is called noem noem.
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.
It is commonly known as the natal plum and in south africa the large num num.
Leaves are leathery a shiny dark green above and paler below 20 60 x 15 35 mm egg shaped oval or almost round.
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.
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.
