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Penang Botanic Gardens Plant Collection

Syzygium jambos (L.) Alston (MYRTACEAE)

Posted at — Nov 13, 2019
Rose Apple, Malabar Plum, Jambu Air Mawar

Description

Small evergreen tree to 10 m tall with dense spreading bushy crown. Leaves 9-26 cm long, narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, opposite. Flowers 5-10 cm across, large pom-pom shaped, white with yellow tinge, in terminal clusters. Fruits 2.5-5 cm across, globose to ovoid, ripening white to pale yellow.


Ecology

Along white-water rivers to c. 700 m altitude.

Distribution

S China to SE Asia. Widely cultivated and naturalised in tropical countries.

Uses

Fruits edible for its sweet rose-scented flesh.