Syzygium jambos — Overview

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Small to medium-sized tree. Leaves opposite, narrowly lanceolate, dark green. Flowers in branched, axillary heads, creamy-white, showy; petals falling separately; filaments long, c. 4 cm. Fruit up to 4.5 cm in diameter, oval to spherical, yellow when ripe.

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