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Scientific name	Carissa grandiflora
Common name	Carissa grandiflora
Temperature requirement	25-35 °C
Humidity	40-50%
Light	Part shade/part sun.
Watering	Water everyday &keep moist
Pests	Aphids, spider mites, thrips
Pet friendliness	Toxic to pets and humans
Maximum Plant height	100-150cm
Potting mix	Potting soil/red soil/manure/perlite
Pot requirement	Good drainage&repot every 1-2 years
Nutrition	Apply manure for first 15 days and npk for next 15 days
Pruning/training	Remove dead & diseased leaves with sterile shears
Description	This spiny shrub is native to south africa. Its leathery leaves are shiny and oval with acute tips. Many sharp thorns protect the twigs, making planting close to walkways somewhat hazardous. Milky sap is secreted when the branches are injured. Showy, white flowers contrast perfectly with the dark-green foliage. They may reach 5 cm in diameter, are star shaped, sweetly scented, and grow in clusters in spring and early summer. The fruit is a red, egg shaped berry up to 5 cm long with a delicious, refreshing taste. The natal plum is frost tender but revels in heat, and grows at a moderate speed to a height and width of 1.5 Metres. In its home country, it may even become a small tree up to 9 metres high. It does well in full sun, but also tolerates some shade at the cost of flowering and fruiting. The glossy leaves resist desiccation from wind. Cultivars grow more compactly and remain shrubs of manageable size. They are ideal bushes for small gardens and are useful as screening hedges, groundcover, grouped planting or in containers. The soil should be well drained and neutral. To encourage establishment by an extended root system, watering must be deep. Both drought and soil with a high salt content are tolerated. General purpose fertilisers are best applied in early spring after the plants’ dormancy. As a hedge plant, it takes shearing in spring after flowering, but recovers slowly from harsh cutting back. Recovering rapidly from frost, damaged branches need to be removed, which may spoil the shrub’s appearance