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Syzygium cumini

Scientific Name
Syzygium cumini
Family Name
Myrtaceae
Common Names
Black plum, jambolan, java plum.
Local Names
Jam, kalojam. (Bangladesh), Jamun (India), Jamblang, juwet (Indonesia),Maha yan (Sri Lanka)
Description
A large evergreen tree with smooth, dark-grey to brown bark. Leaves leathery,opposite, apex acute, narrowed to the petiole at base, translucent dots beneath.Flowers dirty-white, fragrant, crowded in short racemes arising in the leaf axiles.Fruits purplish-black, smooth and shining when ripe and succulent. (India)
Stout tree, 10-30m tall, trunk 40-90cm in diameter, low brancing, crown irreguler orglobose, spreading 12m; bark rough, dark grey on lower part of tree, further upsmooth and light grey. Leaves opposite, broadly abovate-elliptic to elliptic oblong, 5-25cm x 2-10cm, cuneate or rounded at base, apex blunt or tapering to point, entire,edges thin transparent, thick coriaceous, pinkish when young, later shiny dark greenabove, faintly turpentine-scented when buised; petiole 1-3.5cm long. Inflorescences inpanicles, usually borne on leafless branches, solitary or fascicled, dense, many-flowered, 5-12cm long; flower small and fragrant; calyc widely campanulate, 4-6mm long; irregularly dentae above, disk yellow; petals 4, free, orbicular, greyih-white topink; stamens numerous, 4-7mm long; white; ovrary 2-3-called, style 6-7mm long,white. Fruit an ovoid-oblong berry, often curved, crowned by the calyx lobes, 1-5cm long, dark violet, in clusters up to 40; pulp grey-yellow to violetr, juicy, almostinodorous, with sourish astrigent taste. Seeds 0-5, oblong, up to 3.5 long, green tobrown. (Indonesia)
Uses
Dysentery, diabetes, stomachic, carminative, diuretic (Bangladesh)
Mouth wash, gargle, diarrhoea, diabetes (India)
Astringent, diabetes, dysentery, diarrhoea (Indonesia)
Enlarged spleen, ulcers, spongy gums, diabetes, diarrhoea, dysentery (Sri Lanka)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Indonesia - Cimanggu
Sri Lanka - Naula, Bibila, Kanneliya, Meegahak, Haldummu, Pattipola
Remarks
Syzygium cumini (GRIN)

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