Syzygium pycnanthum (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Syzygium pycnanthum Merr. & Perry

Family: Myrtaceae

• Eugenia densiflora (Blume) Duthie.

• Indonesia: kelampok (Bahasa Indonesia), jambon, jambu kapa (Java)
• Malaysia: kelat asam, kelat jambu.

Indonesia (Java, Sumatra), Peninsular Malaysia.

Fruits and flowers are edible. The bark is used to dye cotton brown. The wood is used as firewood. The species is used as termite- resistant rootstock for other Syzygium spp.

• Shrub or tree, 2-15 m tall.
• Fruit a globose berry, ca. 3 cm in diameter, red-purple, crowned by the calyx limb.

In brushwoods of open forests and along waterways, up to 1500 m altitude.

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P.C.M. Jansen, J. Jukema, L.P.A. Oyen, T.G. van Lingen