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. Moderate growing evergreen shrub to 12 15 tall x 4 5 wide. Grows 10 15 inches tall and can spread about 3 4 feet. Well suited for use as edging groundcover or in containers. Strong flower display and a great accent plant with its swollen stems and contorted shapes.

It attracts butterflies and fruit eating birds to the garden. Easy care perennial offers an excellent choice for growing between flagstones or growing as a lawn substitute. Carissa macrocarpa green carpet green carpet natal plum moderately fast growing spreading evergreen broadleaf shrub. Home product carissa macrocarpa green carpet carissa macrocarpa green carpet natal plum carissa family.

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. Glossy green foliage is graced with sweet smelling little white flowers and bright red fruits. Emerald blanket is the dwarf cultivar and its low spreading habit makes it an ideal ground cover shrub. 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.

Carissa macrocarpa green carpet is a dwarf cultivar of carissa macrocarpa and belongs to the apocynaceae family. As the name might imply carissa macrocarpa green carpet is a low growing variety suitable for low hedges or dense groundcover. The small fruit are edible and taste something like a cranberry but sweeter. Accurately referred to as green carpet it is easy to grow and very tolerant of desert soils.

Deep green foliage creates a dense evergreen carpet becoming bronze in winter. Prefers sun or partial shade regular water drought tolerant once established. Tolerates high foot traffic.