854
Syzygium
aqueum (Burm.f.) Alston
Synonym
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Cerocarpus aqueus
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Family
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Myrtaceae
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Local name
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English-Water apple
Malayalam-Panineer jamba
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Flowering and fruiting
period
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December-June
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Distribution
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Malaysia
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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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It is widely used in folk medicine.
A polyphenol-rich extract from its leaves demonstrated a plethora of
substantial pharmacological properties.
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Key botanical
characters :
Trees, to 6 m high, bark tawny-brown;
branchlets first bluntly quadrangular, quickly terete. Leaves simple,
opposite, elliptic-obovate, obovate or elliptic-oblong, apex obtuse, obtusely
acuminate, acuminate or subretuse, base cuneate, subcordate or obtuse, margin
entire, glabrous, coriaceous; petiole stout, glabrous; lateral nerves 9-14
pairs, parallel, prominent, looped near the margin the margin forming
intramarginal nerve, secondary laterals present, intercostae reticulate,
gland-dotted. Flowers bisexual, pinkish-white, 10 in terminal or subterminal
axillary cymes, subsessile. Calyx tube, funnel shaped; lobes 5, ovate. Petals
5, oblong, obtuse, concave. Fruit a berry, globose, pink-red  . |
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