Natal plum

Carissa macrocarpa

Flower name
Natal plum
Scientific name
Carissa macrocarpa
Aliasマクロカルパ, Natal plum
Place of originSouth Africa
Place of floweringSubtropical region
Flowering seasonJuly, August

What is Natal plum

Natal plum, scientific name:carssa macrocarpa, is a hardy evergreen low trees of the Carissa , of the Apocynaceae department native to South Africa,. Nature extends across the branches. Big white stretched cymes from the stem to the aromatic blooms. Is tube-shaped flowers are 5 petaled flower of star-shaped tip. Consisting of flowers after the fruit is spherical, 3-4 cm, red plum similar, and because there is a moderate sour and sweet, saline and jam and eaten. Cortex and thick glossy leaves are 3 to 6 cm, ovoid, with the opposite in a dark green, heart-shaped. Stem have thorns, so in the tropics is students used as a fence.

Common name: Natal plum, scientific name:Carissa macrocarpa, synonym:Carissa grandiflora, also known as: Macrocarpa, Natal plum , origin, Habitat: world in tropical and subtropical areas, height: 6-9 m, leaf shape: oval and heart shaped, leaf length: 3-6 cm, leaf color: dark green, leaf arrangement: alternate, flower diameter: 5 cm, flower, white, fruit color: dark pink The fruit shape: spherical, the fruit diameter: 3-4 cm.