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Syzygium aqueum
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Family:
MYRTACEAE
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Citation: Syzygium aqueum (Burm.f.) Alston, Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. (Peradeniya) 11: 204. 1929; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 365. 2009.
Eugenia aquea Burm.f., Fl. Ind. 114. 1768; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 473. 1878.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Chamba, Panineer jamba, Jamba, Jambakka
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Bell fruit, Watery rose-apple, Water apple, Water cherry
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Description:
Trees, to 6 m high, bark tawny-brown; branchlets first bluntly quadrangular, quickly terete. Leaves simple, opposite, 4.5-23 x 1.5-11 cm, elliptic-obovate, obovate or elliptic-oblong, apex obtuse, obtusely acuminate, acuminate or subretuse, base cuneate, subcordate or obtuse, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; petiole 1-5 mm long, stout, glabrous; lateral nerves 9-14 pairs, parallel, prominent, looped near the margin the margin forming intramarginal nerve, secondary laterals present, intercostae reticulate, gland-dotted. Flowers bisexual, pinkish-white, 10 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 x 8 mm, oblong, obtuse, concave. Stamens many, inflexed in bud, 1.5 cm long; filaments brilliantly pink; anthers white. Ovary inferior, ovules many. Fruit a berry, 2 cm across, globose, pink-red.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
December-June
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District(s):
All Districts
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Cultivated
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Distribution:
Malaysia
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
White
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
Yes
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Peechi
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