Food Plants International - Plant Fact Sheets Carissa spinarum - Simple-spined num-num

Edible parts - Fruit, Spice

An evergreen shrub. It grows 5 m tall. It is thorny. It can be climbing. The leaves are narrowly oval and leathery and have soft hairs. The flowers are white and have a scent. They are in groups at the ends of branches. The fruit are red berries. They are about 1 cm across.

A tropical plant. It grows in dry regions. It can grow in arid places. It grows in south India. In the Himalayas it grows up to 6,000 m above sea level. It occurs in the Western Ghats in India. Rajasthan. In Sichuan and Yunnan.