Trees & Plants

Malabar plum

Jambu

Syzygium jambos (L.) Alston

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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uses: 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.
native range: Southeast Asia
distribution: Pantropical
english names: Malabar plum · Rose apple
flowering fruiting: October – January
occurrence maldives: In homesteads