Carissa Green Carpet Plant

It has beautiful quite large scented white flowers and large edible red fruits on and off throughout the year.

Carissa green carpet plant.

Accurately referred to as green carpet it is easy to grow and very tolerant of desert soils. It attracts butterflies and fruit eating birds to the garden. Grows 10 15 inches tall and can spread about 3 4 feet. 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.

Deep green foliage creates a dense evergreen carpet becoming bronze in winter. Carissa macrocarpa green carpet is a hardy evergreen drought resistant dense spiny dwarf spreading shrublet with leathery dark green glossy leaves. Well suited for use as edging groundcover or in containers. The small fruit are edible and taste something like a cranberry but sweeter.

The dark green leaves of the carissa macrocarpa make this an excellent ground cover for green yards and a beautiful contrast in desert landscapes. Moderate growing evergreen shrub to 12 15 tall x 4 5 wide. Carissa macrocarpa green carpet is a dwarf cultivar of carissa macrocarpa and belongs to the apocynaceae family. Home product carissa macrocarpa green carpet carissa macrocarpa green carpet natal plum carissa family.

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 white flowers appearing predominantly in spring with sporadic bloom throughout the year in milder climates. Strong flower display and a great accent plant with its swollen stems and contorted shapes. Carissa macrocarpa green carpet green carpet natal plum moderately fast growing spreading evergreen broadleaf shrub. Tolerates high foot traffic.

Green carpet green carpet is a tender compact spreading evergreen shrub with small ovate dark green leaves and cymes of fragrant waxy white flowers in late spring followed by ovoid red to purple black fruit. As the name might imply carissa macrocarpa green carpet is a low growing variety suitable for low hedges or dense groundcover. Glossy green foliage is graced with sweet smelling little white flowers and bright red fruits.