Jambos

Syzygium jambos, commonly known as rose apple, malabar plum or jambu, is a small to medium-sized evergreen tree in the family Myrtaceae native to Southeast Asia (probably Malesia and the Indo-Burma region) and now widely cultivated and naturalised throughout the tropics, including much of the Caribbean, tropical America, Africa and the Pacific islands. Mature trees reach 7 to 12 metres in height, occasionally to 18 metres, with a dense, low-branching, spreading crown and brown, finely flaking bark. The opposite leaves are simple, narrowly lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, 10 to 22 centimetres long and 2.5 to 5 centimetres wide, glossy dark green above and paler beneath, with an entire, slightly wavy margin and a long-tapering acuminate tip; young foliage flushes a striking pinkish-red. Showy flowers are borne in terminal corymbose cymes of four to five blossoms, each 5 to 10 centimetres across and dominated by a hemispherical brush of 200 to 400 long greenish-white to creamy-yellow stamens. The fruit is a roughly globose to ovoid yellowish-white or pale rose-tinted berry 3 to 5 centimetres long with crisp, rose-scented, somewhat hollow flesh enclosing one to two large brown seeds.