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Ripe natal plum fruit are edible, having a tasty sweet yet tart cranberry taste. Seasonal Color: White flowers in early to mid spring, usually in early April in Phoenix. Temperature: Reddish-purple leaves in winter due to chilling injury, foliage injured below 26 o F.
How to Grow and Care for Natal Plum - The Spruce
2024年8月8日 · Natal plum (Carissa macrocarpa) is a flowering shrub grown mostly as a landscape specimen but also for its small fruits, which taste like cranberries. It has a moderate-to-fast growth rate and is best planted in fall or winter. Natal plum does best in …
Tuttlei Natal Plum | Hedges | Moon Valley Nurseries
The Natal Plum (Carissa macrocarpa Tuttlei) can be used as a formal hedge along house walls or bordering walkways. When allowed to grow free-form this plant is perfect as a backdrop in planter beds. The Natal Plum is very clean, easy to maintain and recovers quickly from frost damage.
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These plants are salt-tolerant, and show little damage in full sunlight. Drought tolerant natal plum prefer balanced fertilizer, periodic irrigation and need only light pruning. They are propagated by seed. Germination takes two weeks.
10 Shrubs for Full Sun and Reflected Heat - Desert Gardening 101
2016年6月20日 · Natal Plum (Carissa macrocarpa) With dark green leaves, Natal Plum offers an alternative to boxwood in intensely sunny locations. It produces white star-shaped flowers with a jasmine and orange blossom fragrance in spring.
Natal Plum - amwua.org
Fragrant flowers and edible fruits. Look for dwarf selections for use in smaller landscape spaces. Provides an "oasis" feel. Previously classified as Carissa grandiflora.
Natal Plum/Boxwood shrubs are great for small areas
2020年8月7日 · Boxwood Beauty also known as the Natal Plum shrubs are great for small areas or bordering your landscape (botanical name is Carissa Macrocarpa). This is a short shrub with small round clustered dark green leaves that gets to …
natal plum Archives - Desert Gardening 101
2016年6月20日 · Natal Plum (Carissa macrocarpa) With dark green leaves, Natal Plum offers an alternative to boxwood in intensely sunny locations. It produces white star-shaped flowers with a jasmine and orange blossom fragrance in spring.
Natal Plum – Green Carpet | Elgin Nursery & Tree Farm: Phoenix, …
This evergreen with mounding shape has fragrant, white solitary star-shaped flowers and bears red fruit that can be eaten or made into a cranberry like preserve.
Carissa macrocarpa 'Boxwood Beauty' (Boxwood Beauty Natal Plum)
Carissa macrocarpa 'Boxwood Beauty' (Boxwood Beauty Natal Plum) Slow growing mounding evergreen broadleaf shrub - height 18 to 24 inches - spread 24 to 30 inches - full sun - hardy to about 32 degrees f - likes acid soil - does well in containers - fragrant white starlike flowers periodically - can be damaged by frost - great for around pools ...