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| About the Author Rowena Woodend 27th December 2015 7:07am #UserID: 12960 Posts: 2 View All Rowena's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author denise1 auckland NZ 28th December 2015 7:03am #UserID: 6832 Posts: 688 View All denise1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Rowena Woodend 28th December 2015 2:42pm #UserID: 12960 Posts: 2 View All Rowena's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Linton says... Carissa macrocarpa vs Carissa bispinosa. I would like to hear other opinions about how good the edibility is for Natal Plums as there have been so many conflicting reports. However I do realize that there are wide fluctuations in the quality of the fruits of this species, but Louis Glowinsky did rate them very highly in a video I once watched. So it would be good to read other growers recent opinions about them. The Natal Plum is Carissa macrocarpa but in the mean time I have also been growing Carissa bispinosa as the general consensus is that the fruit of this species has superior fruit to that of the Natal Plum. Now, after 3 months of growing Carissa bispinosa in a pot it has it's first flowers so it may be possible to try the fruit first hand in a much shorter time frame than expected. Thanks for reading!
| About the Author Linton NOBLE PARK,3174,VIC 4th February 2017 3:17pm #UserID: 2286 Posts: 994 View All Linton's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author denise1 auckland NZ 6th February 2017 2:32pm #UserID: 6832 Posts: 688 View All denise1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Linton says... Natal Plum flowering now....worth growing or not? One of my plants currently has flowers but I don't think it will make fruit as it says on your site that you need 2 plants for pollination but the other one hasn't flowered. Please advise if anyone has had fruit produced on just one flowering plant and if the fruit was good to eat. Thanks.
| About the Author Linton NOBLE PARK,3174,VIC 8th December 2017 10:22am #UserID: 2286 Posts: 994 View All Linton's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Linton says... Both of the Natal Plum trees are very sick now. They seem to be stricken with some kind of black spot disease.They are growing in full sun, hot and dry. Have tried spraying them with copper but it hasn't made any difference. The black spots keep getting worse and thickening until the whole of the leaf has turned black.I removed a lot of the leaves but the new juvenile leaves quickly develop the black spots again. No other plants next to them are showing these effects, it is only on the Natal Plums so I urgently need to know what is causing it and if there is any suitable remedy. Thank you and Happy Christmas!
| About the Author Linton NOBLE PARK,3174,VIC 22nd December 2018 8:47pm #UserID: 2286 Posts: 994 View All Linton's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author denise1 auckland NZ 23rd December 2018 2:38pm #UserID: 6832 Posts: 688 View All denise1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Linton says... Carissa bispinosa currently fruiting. Although lesser known, it's closely related and very similar to Natal Plum, Carissa macrocarpa. Natal Plums are said to require pollination from another plant to produce fruit. However I only have one plant of Carissa bispinosa and there is nothing else around to pollinate it, yet it has produced fruit. Could someone please shed some light on this matter. Thank you.
| About the Author Linton NOBLE PARK,3174,VIC 23rd May 2019 8:18pm #UserID: 2286 Posts: 994 View All Linton's Edible Fruit Trees |
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