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| Distribution | Native range uncertain, perhaps Malesia to SE Asia, widely cultivated and naturalized.In the Hawaiian Islands,
a Polynesian introduction on
Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Maui, Hawai`i.
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Habit
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Tree, 8‒25 m tall, bark grayish brown, somewhat flaky, glabrous throughout.
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Leaves
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Leaves petiolate; blade subcoriaceous, elliptic to oblong-obovate, 14‒38 cm long, 5‒20 cm wide, secondary veins 8‒15 on each side, 10‒25 mm apart, submarginal vein sinuate, apex short-acuminate, base cuneate; petiole 0.8‒1.5 cm long.
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Flowers
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Inflorescences an axillary cyme, 2‒5 mm long on older branches, leafless nodes, and occasionally on trunk, peduncle 0.5‒1 cm long; bracts 1‒1.5 mm long. Flowers with funnelform hypanthium, 10‒15 mm long, tapering to a pseudopedicel, 5‒7 mm long; sepals 4, 2‒4 mm long, persistent; petals 4, bright purplish red or rarely white, obovate-orbicular, 6‒10 mm long; stamens ca. 100, filaments purplish red, 10‒20 mm long.
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Fruit
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Fruit pink to red, turning maroon, rarely whitish, obovoid, 5‒7 cm long, pericarp crisp, watery, 10‒20 mm thick.
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Seeds
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Seed usually 1, subglobose, 1.5‒2 cm in diameter, testa fibrous, closely coherent to cotyledons.
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Chromosomes
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2n = 22.
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Contributor
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Nancy Khan
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