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Natal Plum

Carissa macrocarpa

Photo by HemaShah
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Field Notes

Notes:

This plant had green leaves and white flowers. The unripened fruit was green in color.Small bush. No thorns.Red fruit is the size of a strawberry.

Species ID Suggestions

Natal plum

carissa

Comments (7)

The color of both the species is a very appealing pinkish red.
I have eaten the other species, "Carissa carandas" and it is a rich source of iron and an all time favorite.
@ Jean ,we have an Id , Thnx to auntnance! The Red fruit did look tasty. the flowers are attractive too . This Species is native to Africa, Asia and Australia, AAA
**blushes** Well, I'll tell ya, Emma, when I started out with a neighbor's old Windows 95 computer (that they were going to throw away) about 14 years ago, I made all the mistakes that anyone could make (and then some!) but, I was fortunate enough to find some really nice, helpful and friendly people in the old MSN communities that were so patient with this "newbie" and they taught me a lot of things that I use every day now... Computers and the Net are an ever emerging learning process that never ends and you've just got to keep up with the changes as they happen... Remain as curious, flexible and open as you are right now and you'll be "tech savvy" in NO time! :^D
@ jean ,you are tech Savy too!!.
@ Jean , Thanks for this valuable tip.
Ya got me... The leaves kind of look some type of Hoya but -- it's hard to tell from the photos... Are you taking these with your phone, Emma? I might suggest resizing these photos in a graphics program before you try posting them. You could keep the "resolution" the same but make the outside dimensions considerably smaller (something like 550 pixels x 3-hundred something pixels) and I think the whole image would "sharpen up" quite a bit. I think you can even do it in "Paint" if you don't have any other graphics program. (I have PaintShop Pro 9, Picture It! and Adobe Illustrator -- although -- I really like PaintShop Pro the best).

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