Trees & Plants

Java apple

Jambu gas

Syzygium samarangense

Cultivated in homesteads and gardens. Also planted as avenue tree. Fruits are edible. Wood is of moderate quality and used for small scale constructions. Powdered leaves are a remedy for cracked tongue. Fruit is used in cases of fever, diabetes, cough and headaches. The root bark

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uses: Fruits are edible. Wood is of moderate quality and used for small scale constructions. Powdered leaves are a remedy for cracked tongue. Fruit is used in cases of fever, diabetes, cough and headaches. The root bark decoction is useful in treating dysentery, amenorrhea and also used as an abortifacient. at
family: Myrtaceae
synonym: Eugenia javanica Lam., Myrtus samarangensis Blume
description: Evergreen trees, to 15 m tall, for bark smooth, greyish. Leaves opposite, sub- × sessile, to 20 8 cm, broadly lanceolate or ovate, base cordate, apex acuminate, punctuate, secondary nerves many, prominent, looping with intra-marginal nerves. Flowers in drooping panicles at the branch tips or in small clusters in the axils of fallen leaves. Petals 4, white, ovate. Stamens numerous. Fruit with fleshy calyx; seeds 1-2, sometimes seedless.
native range: Malaysia, Andaman and Nicobar Islands
distribution: Southeast Asia, widely (Blume) Merr. & L. M. Perry introduced elsewhere
english names: Java apple · Wax apple · Bell apple
flowering fruiting: February – June
occurrence maldives: Cultivated in homesteads and gardens. Also planted as avenue tree.