The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Carissa tetramera
Also called Sand Numnum
Sand carissa is a dry-country shrub from eastern Africa and southern Africa, growing up to about 3 m, with fragrant white flowers and red to purple-black fruit. It is grown mainly in warm, dry, frost-free areas and needs sun and very well-drained soil.
Carissa tetramera, the sand num-num, is a plant in the dogbane family Apocynaceae. The specific epithet tetramera means 'four parts', referring to the flower.
Carissa tetramera is native to Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Eswatini and South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal and Northern Provinces). Its habitat is dry open woodland.
Forest Num Num · Karanda · Karoo Num Num · Amatungulu · Egyptian Carissa · Num Nums
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Carissa tetramera by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
