Kaffir/Natal Plum
- To: , "medit-plants"
- Subject: Kaffir/Natal Plum
- From: W* G*
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:49:58 -0400
On 1/10/01 1:51 AM Glenn Breayley (valhalla@iafrica.com) wrote:
>>One handsome African tree that does very well here and fruits abundantly,
>>as long as there are both male and female trees since it is dioecious, is
>>Harpephyllum caffrum, the South African 'Kaffir Plum'. Is this grown at
>>all in California and other Medit climates?
>>
>>
>>William Glover
>Naughty, naughty............ Definitely not politically correct anymore. Now
>called the Natal Plum. For South Africans that is as bad as Americans using
>the N word.
Cannot another name be suggested for Harpephyllum caffrum as 'Natal Plum'
has long been the common name in Anglophone countries for Carissa
grandiflora, another native - if this is not now a perjorative word -
South African plant.
Interestingly enough, a homesick South African is building a very large,
very expensive, and highly visible house on this island in Dutch
Afrikaaner style that is rapidly becoming known as 'Apartheid House'.
