Botanical name: Eugenia codyensis    Family: Myrtaceae (Bottlebrush family)
Synonyms: Syzygium codyense, Eugenia hypoleuca, Eugenia memecylifolia

Kodi Cherry is a much branched shrub or small tree with bark rough silvery-grey; twigs round, much branched, pale grey dapped, rapidly becoming stout. Leaves are opposite, 3-6 x 2-5 cm, broadly elliptic to nearly round, thickly leathery, concave, drying chocolate-brown beneath; margin prominently curled; base broadly wedge-shaped; tip flat, blunt, or somewhat pointed; nerves about 8 pairs, very slender, rising up. Midrib is stoutly prominent beneath Leaf-stalks are 5-10 mm long, stout. Flowers are white to pale yellow, solitary, in leaf-axils; flower-stalks 3.5 cm long, very slender. Sepal-cup 8 mm diam., 7 mm long, shallowly cup-shaped, finely velvet-hairy, with 4, 7 mm long and broad, prominent segments forming a 2 cm diameter ring. Petals are 1.5 x 1 cm, elliptic-spoon-shaped, blunt, very large. Stamens are about 1 cm long. Cherry is 2.5 cm diameter, spherical, ripening green flushed with crimson. Kodi Cherry is native to South India and Sri Lanka.

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