In homesteads Planted as an avenue tree and for its edible fruits. The wood is useful in small scale constructions. The fruit is used as a tonic for the brain and liver and the seeds as a remedy for dysentery and catarrh. Bark is used to treat asthma, bronchitis and hoarseness. E
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Planted as an avenue tree and for its edible fruits. The wood is useful in small scale constructions. The fruit is used as a tonic for the brain and liver and the seeds as a remedy for dysentery and catarrh. Bark is used to treat asthma, bronchitis and hoarseness. EUQEEFAR .M/OAF
family
Myrtaceae
synonym
Eugenia jambos L.
description
Evergreen trees, to 15 m high, branchlets terete, glabrous. Leaves simple, × opposite, decussate, 10-18 2.5-5.5 cm, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, base acute, obtuse or cuneate, apex acute or acuminate; as lateral nerves 10-16 pairs, pinnate, is prominent, arched towards the margin forming intra marginal nerves; petiole 7-10 mm long. Flowers bisexual, white, to 6 cm across in terminal cymes to 10 cm; pedicel to 2 cm. Calyx tube 1.5 cm, turbinate; lobes × 4, 8 6 mm, ovate-orbicular, subequal, × persistent. Petals 4, 1.5 1.8 cm, free, concave, orbicular; disc thick, lining the calyx. Stamens many; filaments exserted. Ovary inferior, 2-celled, ovules many. Fruit × a berry, to 3 2.5 cm, white or pink, oblong; seeds brown.