In a message dated 6/1/2003 9:24:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
writes:

Just back
from St. Pete where Mick Sgroi and I dug five or six nifty
50-year-old natal plums. _I_ even brought one home. Total
number of true tropicals now in my collection: 2 ;-)


Jim
Are you calling the Natal Plum (Carissa grandiflora) a true
tropical? They
may not be reliably cold hardy in Tallahassee but they are more
hardy than
Ficus.
Billy on the Florida Space Coast


Well, now that I actually look it up, my true tropical list is
back down to 1! Still Zone 9 is less than "not reliably cold
hardy" and I'll have to bring the danged thing in this winter!

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - This economy
is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment. - Gaylord
Nelson, 1995

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