Botanical name: Syzygium rubicundum    Family: Myrtaceae (Bottlebrush family)
Synonyms: Eugenia rubicunda, Eugenia lissophylla, Syzygium lissophyllum

South Indian Black Plum is a tree, up to 15 m tall, bark pale brown, thin, smooth; branchlets 4-amgled. Leaves are simple, opposite; leaf-stalk 5-6 mm long, slender, grooved above, hairless; blade 2.5-10 x 1.5-5.5 cm, ovate-lanceshaped, elliptic-obovate or ovate, base narrowed or wedge-shaped, tip with a tail tapering or bluntly tapering, margin entire, hairless, leathery; lateral nerves many, parallel, close, very slender, faint, looped at the margin forming obscure intramarginal nerve, intercostae netveined, obscure. Flowers are bisexual, small, pinkish-white, in leaf-axils and at branch-ends, in densely flowered, corymb-like cymes; shortly stalked. Sepal-tube is 2 x 2.5 mm long, top-shaped, sepals 4; no thickened disc, petals 3 mm across, calyptrate; stamens many, free, bent inwards at the middle in bud; filaments 4 mm long, spreading, style 1. Fruit is a spherical, purplish-black berry, 6 mm across. South Indian Black Plum is found in Western Ghats and Sri Lanka.

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