Re: Carissa Macrocarpa

At 10:10 PM 3/1/99 -0800, you wrote:
>I have liked the Natal Plum, carissa macrocarpa,.....
>I have seen it
>growing very well in San Diego and Riverside, but not so well in Oakland,
>where I live.

There used to be a number of them around the Bay Area that were thriving
and fruiting, but I don't know if any survived the '90 freeze. One bush was
doing quite well on the north side of Durant Ave (just below Bowditch) in
Berkeley -- in a dinky front yard surrounded by concrete and tall
buildings. There was also a big planting of them thriving along the
south/east sides of the Moscone Center in San Francisco. On the other hand,
the one I bought in Southern California and grew in the Berkeley flats (and
also a Carissa caranda I tried) just sulked, and eventually died from the
winter wet/cold.

Katherine Pyle
Berkeley, California
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