General Landscape Uses: Groundcover, low hedge, border plant, container specimen

Ecological Restoration Notes: Erosion control, salt spray tolerance, low-maintenance ground cover

Description: Carissa ‘Boxwood Beauty’ is a deep green, compact shrub that can be used to make a low hedge. It produces lightly fragrant white flowers throughout the year and is both salt and drought tolerant.

Dimensions: Height 2 ft.; Spread 4 – 6 ft.

Growth Rate: Moderate

Native Range: South Africa

Native Habitats: Coastal dunes, sand forests, scrublands, edges of coastal thickets and forests

Soils: Well-draining

Nutritional Requirements: Moderate

Salt Water Tolerance: High

Salt Wind Tolerance: High

Drought Tolerance: High to Moderate

Light Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Sun

Flower Color: White

Flower Characteristics: Star-shaped, fragrant

Flowering Season: Spring to fall

Fruit: Small, oval, red, edible

Wildlife and Ecology: Fruit attracts birds and small wildlife.

Horticultural Notes: Grown from cuttings, seed

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