Taxon: Carissa macrocarpa (Eckl.) A. DC.

Common names:

• Natal-plum   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• carisse   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Natal-Pflaume   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• amatúngula   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• cereza de Natal   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• natalplommon   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  
• amatungulu   (Source: Dict Gard ) – unknown
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Zander ed14; Dict Gard)
  
• Human food: fruit   (fide F ChinaEng)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya - Nairobi Area
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Zaire - Kivu
  South Tropical Africa: Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: South Africa - Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Western Cape

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Arnold, T. H. & B. C. De Wet, eds. 1993. Plants of southern Africa: names and distribution. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa no. 62.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana.
• Dyer, R. A. et al., eds. 1963–. Flora of southern Africa.
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Kartesz, J. T. & K. N. Gandhi. 1992. Nomenclatural notes for the North American flora. X. Phytologia 72:81.
• Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976).
• Leeuwenberg, A. J. M. & F. J. H. van Dilst. 2001. Series of revisions of Apocynaceae XLIX. Carissa L. Agric. Univ. Wageningen Pap. 2001–1:27–31.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Palmer, E. & N. Pitman. 1972–1973. Trees of southern Africa.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Ross, J. 1972. The flora of Natal.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). [cultivated].

More:

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Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Carissa macrocarpa.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Carissa macrocarpa.

Synonyms:

• (=) Arduina grandiflora E. Mey.
  
• (≡) Arduina macrocarpa Eckl. (basionym)
  
• (=) Carissa grandiflora (E. Mey.) A. DC.
  (previously associated with 11 accessions)

Check other web resources for Carissa macrocarpa (Eckl.) A. DC.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Carissa macrocarpa cultivars
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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