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Carissa bispinosa

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Linnaeus) Desfontaines ex Brenan

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Botswana
• Kenya
• Malawi
• Mozambique
• Namibia
• Cape Province
• Natal
• Northern Provinces
• Orange Free State - South Africa
• Swaziland
• Tanzania
• Uganda
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Climber or glabrous pubescent shrub with spines to 40mm long. Mucronulate glabrous leaves to 75mm x 50mm. Glabrous cymes, flowers with calyx 2mm long, pale pink glabrous sepals, fragrant white corolla with tube to 9mm long hairy at throat, lobe to 60mm long. Scarlet edible berry to 16mm long.

Edible berry

Further References

• The Plant List 2
• Kew
• FOTA