Rajagiri Flora

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South Indian Plum
Botanical Name

Syzygium caryophyllatum (L.) Alston

Common Name South Indian Plum
Local Name കാട്ടുഞാവൽ
Family Myrtaceae
Campus Location

Rajagiri Business School, Valley Campus, Kakkanad

Systematic position
Kingdom:  Plantae
Phylum: Streptophyta
Class: Equisetopsida
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae

Syzygium caryophyllatum is a fruit tree native to southern India and Sri Lanka. Fruits are globular, unripe fruit is green in colour and deep purple or black coloured when ripen. Simple leaves opposite, glabrous, obovate to oblong, obtuse apex, short petiole; white bisexual flowers in corymbs.

Ripen fruits edible can be eaten raw.

Botanical Name

Syzygium caryophyllatum (L.) Alston

Common Name South Indian Plum
Local Name കാട്ടുഞാവൽ
Family Myrtaceae
Campus Location

Rajagiri Business School, Valley Campus, Kakkanad

Systematic position
Kingdom:  Plantae
Phylum: Streptophyta
Class: Equisetopsida
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae

Syzygium caryophyllatum is a fruit tree native to southern India and Sri Lanka. Fruits are globular, unripe fruit is green in colour and deep purple or black coloured when ripen. Simple leaves opposite, glabrous, obovate to oblong, obtuse apex, short petiole; white bisexual flowers in corymbs.

Ripen fruits edible can be eaten raw.