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Eugenia
uniflora L.
Synonym
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Eugenia arechavaletae
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Family
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Myrtaceae
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Local name
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English
- Brazilian
Cherry
Malayalam
– Mulakunelli
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Flowering and fruiting period
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March-July
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Distribution
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Native of tropical America
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Distribution in kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Cultivated
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Endemic/Exotic
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Exotic
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Uses
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Used in popular medicine as a diuretic, anti-rheumatic,
anti-febrile, and anti-inflammatory agent and as a therapeutic agent for
stomach diseases
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Key
Botanical Characters :
Much branched large
shrubs; bud puberulent, parts otherwise glabrous; branches terete, slender,
pale brown. Leaves opposite, 3.6-5 x 1.3-3 cm ovate, chartaceous, densely
punctuate, base broadly cuneate or obtuse, apex bluntly subacuminate or
obtuse; lateral nerves c. 5 pairs, sinuate, arching and branching within the
margin but not uniting to from a distinct intramarginal nerve, midrib
slender, elevated beneath; petiole 2-3 mm long, short. Flowers 1-3, axillary,
white, on -2 cm long very slender peduncles. Calyx -2 mm long, funnel-shaped,
lobes 4, 4 x 2 mm, oblong, subacute, reflexed at anthesis. Stamens 5 mm long.
Fruit 2.5 cm diameter, depressed-globose, prominently ribbed, succulent,
crimson, with small
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