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Carissa bispinosa
About
Carissa bispinosa grows as a shrub or small tree up to 5 metres (16 ft) tall. Its fragrant flowers feature a white corolla. The fruit is red when ripe. Its habitat is woodland and forest from 1,080 m (3,540 ft) to 1,630 m (5,350 ft) elevation. Vernacular names for the plant include forest num-num and Y-thorned carissa. Carissa bispinosa is native an area from Uganda to South Africa.
- Family
- Apocynaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Carissa bispinosa
- Slug
- carissa-bispinosa
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Apocynaceae
- Genus
- Carissa
- Species
- bispinosa
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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