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How to Grow
Sunlight
Partial Shade - Full Sun
~
3-6 hours of sun per day, with protection from intense mid-day sun
Characteristics
Plant Type
Edible, Shrub, Many-stemmed shrub 1–3·7 m. high.
Lifespan
Woody
Flower
5 petaled solitary fragrant star-shaped white flowers, Flowers pentamerous, in sessile or shortly pedunculate terminal 1–few-flowered cymes, white, jasmine-scented, heterostylous.
Fruit
Oval, resemble plums, hence the common name. Immature green maturing to red or purple fleshy thin skinned edible., Fruit 3–5 cm. long when fresh, ovoid, pointed, red and edible when ripe, many-seeded.
Taxonomy
Order
Gentianales
Family
Apocynaceae
Genus
Carissa