Trees & Plants

Bell fruit

Jan buroalu

Syzygium aqueum (Burm. f.)

Cultivated in homesteads rst Fruits are edible. In traditional medicine, the fruit salad is a ceremonial dish for new mothers. The wood is hard and suitable for handicrafts. The leaves and fruits possess antibiotic properties and or also used for the treatment of malaria and pneu

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uses: Fruits are edible. In traditional medicine, the fruit salad is a ceremonial dish for new mothers. The wood is hard and suitable for handicrafts. The leaves and fruits possess antibiotic properties and or also used for the treatment of malaria and pneumonia. An infusion of the leaves is used in the treatment of stomach aches and dysentery. or a .P/OAF
family: Myrtaceae
synonym: Eugenia aquea Burm. f.
description: Small trees; branchlets first bluntly quadrangular. Leaves simple, × opposite, 4.5-23 1.5-11 cm, elliptic- obovate, obovate or elliptic-oblong, base cuneate, subcordate or obtuse, apex obtuse, obtusely acuminate, acuminate or subretuse, coriaceous; lateral nerves 9-14 pairs, parallel, looped near the margin and forming intramarginal nerve; petiole 1-5 mm long. Flowers bisexual, white or pinkish-white, in terminal or subterminal axillary cymes, subsessile. Calyx tube 1.5-3 cm long, funnel shaped; lobes 5, 6 mm long, × ovate. Petals 5, 12 8 mm, oblong, obtuse, concave. Stamens many, inflexed in bud, 1.5 cm long; filaments white or pink. Fruit a berry, 2 cm across, globose, pinkish or red.
native range: Tropical Asia
distribution: Widely cultivated in the tropics
english names: Bell fruit · Watery rose-apple.
flowering fruiting: December – June f.) Alston
occurrence maldives: Cultivated in homesteads rst