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Syzygium makul
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Family:
MYRTACEAE
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Citation: Syzygium makul Gaertn., Fruct. 1: 166.1778; Manilal et al., Journ. Econ. Tax. Bot. 5: 419. 1984; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 106. 1988; Suresh in Manoharan et al., Silent Valley-Whispers Reason 176. 1999.
Eugenia sylvestris Moon ex Wight, Ic. t. 532. 1843; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 493. 1879.
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Description:
Small trees, bark smooth, pale-brown first, becoming thinly flaked and dipped, pale orange-brown; branches terete, glabrous, pale cream-brown; young leaves bright crimson. Leaves simple, opposite, estipulate; petiole 8-15 mm, long, stout; lamina 9-17 x 4.5-7 cm, narrowly obovate or elliptic or elliptic-obovate, base cuneate, apex acuminate, acumen twisted, margin subrevolute, chocolate-brown beneath on drying, coriaceous; lateral nerves many, slender, parallel, looped near the margin forming intramarginal nerve, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers bisexual, white, in dense terminal or subterminal axillary cymes; calyx upto 3 x 2 mm, campanulate, obscurely 4-5 segmented; petals 4-5, upto 4 mm long, concave, fugacious; stamens numerous, upto 4 mm long; ovary inferior, 2-celled, ovules many. Fruit a berry, 1 x 0.8 cm, purplish, subglobose, with a terminal unlobed crown.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
January-July
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District(s):
Palakkad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evegreen forests
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Distribution:
South India and Sri Lanka
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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:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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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:
Damsite
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