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Genus: Carissa (num-nums)

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) >  Eudicotyledons >  Core Eudicots >  Asterids >  Euasterid I > Order: Gentianales >  Family: Apocynaceae > Subfamily: Plumerioideae

About 20 species, native to Africa, Madagascar, the Mascarenes, Asia and Australia, with 4 species indigenous to southern Africa.

Species in southern Africa

Carissa bispinosa

 

Carissa edulis

 

Carissa macrocarpa (Big num-num)

  

Carissa tetramera

 

Herbivores

Lophostethus dumolinii (Arrow Sphinx Hawkmoth). Caterpillars recorded eating leaves of Carissa macrocarpa

Apocanaceae < Lepidoptera < Sphingidae (hawkmoths)

  
 

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