Dicotyledon | Literature for Syzygium jambos
Lorence & Wagner, 2020. |
Myrtaceae -- The Myrtle Family | Bibliography |
Syzygium jambos | |
Common name(s): `ohi`a loke, rose apple |
General Information | ||
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Distribution | Native range uncertain, probably Malesia and perhaps SE Asia, widely cultivated and naturalized.In the Hawaiian Islands, naturalized on Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Hawai`i. | |
Habit |
Tree, 6‒15 m tall, bark grayish brown, smooth, glabrous throughout. |
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Leaves |
Leaves petiolate; blade thin, coriaceous, narrowly lanceolate, 10‒23 cm long, 2.5‒5 cm wide, secondary veins 10‒20 on each side, 5‒15 mm apart, submarginal vein irregular, apex long-acuminate, base cuneate; petiole 0.5‒1 cm long. |
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Flowers |
Inflorescences a terminal, once branched cyme, ca. 2 cm long, peduncle 0.7‒1.5 cm long; bracts 0.8‒1 mm long. Flowers with obconic hypanthium, 7‒10 mm long, narrowing into a short pseudopedicel, 3‒4 mm long; sepals 4, fleshy, unequal, one pair 6‒8 mm long, the other pair 4‒6 mm long, glabrous or sparsely puberulent, persistent; petals 4, white to greenish white, orbicular to ovate-orbicular, concave, 12‒20 mm long, caducous; stamens ca. 200, filaments creamy white, 10‒50 mm long. |
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Fruit |
Fruit whitish yellow to pinkish yellow, subglobose, 2‒4 cm long, pericarp fleshy, sweet, 10‒15 mm thick. |
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Seeds |
Seed usually 1, subglobose, 2‒2.5 cm in diameter, testa closely coherent to cotyledons. |
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Chromosomes |
2n = 28, 33, ca. 42, 44, 46, ca. 54, 66. |
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Contributor |
Nancy Khan |