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Carissa spinarum
Carissa spinarum
- Botanic Family
- Apocynaceae
- Author
- Linnaeus
- Cultivated
- C, edible fruit
Common Names
- Tsingena
- Tian jia hu ci (Pinyin)
- Mon không (Vietnam)
- Agamsa or Degmut or Degwud (Somali)
Geographical Habitats
- Aldabra Islands
- Angola
- New South Wales
- Northern Territory
- Queensland
- Western Australia - Australia
- Bangladesh
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde Islands
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- S. Yunnan - China
- Comoros
- Congo
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Eritraea
- Ethiopia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea Bissau
- Andaman Islands
- Nicobar islands - India
- Maluku - Indonesia
- Ivory Coast
- Japan
- Kenya
- Laos
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritius
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nepal
- New Caledonia
- New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
- Nigeria
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Reunion
- Rodrigues
- Rwanda
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Somalia
- Cape Province
- Northern Provinces - South Africa
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Togo
- Uganda
- Vietnam
- Yemen
- Zaire
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Natural Habitats
- Woodland margins
- montane areas
- riverside
- coastal
- bushland
- forest
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Small spiny tree, shrub or armed woody glabrous climber to 1.5m+, climbs with hooked spines to 62mm long, forms shrub in cultivation,may be without spines, scabrous branchlets, puberulent stems with spines to 70mm long. Often mucronate glabrous or scabrous coriaceous leaves 105mm x 60mm. Terminal or axillary corymbs or cymes 30mm long with bracts to 2mm long of 20mm white or tinged pink scented flowers, calyx 4mm long, 5 sepals 2.5mm long, white corolla tinged red outside, 5 petals 6mm long, corolla tube to 20mm long glabrous outside villous inside, lobes 8mm long. Purple to red or black ovoid edible berry or drupe to 25mm x 10mm.
Cultivated for edible fruit
Further References
- FOC
- de Candolle
- The Plant List 2
- G. Don
- FA
- Botanicus
- F Indochine
- FOTA
- Kew
- Fsom