Carissa Green Carpet Plant

Well suited for use as edging groundcover or in containers.

Carissa green carpet plant.

Deep green foliage creates a dense evergreen carpet becoming bronze in winter. The dark green leaves of the carissa macrocarpa make this an excellent ground cover for green yards and a beautiful contrast in desert landscapes. Carissa macrocarpa green carpet is a hardy evergreen drought resistant dense spiny dwarf spreading shrublet with leathery dark green glossy leaves. The small fruit are edible and taste something like a cranberry but sweeter.

Easy care perennial offers an excellent choice for growing between flagstones or growing as a lawn substitute. Prefers sun or partial shade regular water drought tolerant once established. Emerald blanket is the dwarf cultivar and its low spreading habit makes it an ideal ground cover shrub. It has beautiful quite large scented white flowers and large edible red fruits on and off throughout the year.

Strong flower display and a great accent plant with its swollen stems and contorted shapes. 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. Moderate growing evergreen shrub to 12 15 tall x 4 5 wide.

It attracts butterflies and fruit eating birds to the garden. Grows 10 15 inches tall and can spread about 3 4 feet. Tolerates high foot traffic. Carissa macrocarpa green carpet green carpet natal plum moderately fast growing spreading evergreen broadleaf shrub.

Carissa macrocarpa green carpet is a dwarf cultivar of carissa macrocarpa and belongs to the apocynaceae family. Accurately referred to as green carpet it is easy to grow and very tolerant of desert soils. 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.