Eugenia roxburghii Dc.

Species

Angiosperms > Myrtales > Myrtaceae > Eugenia

Characteristics

A large shrub or small tree. It grows 1-8 m tall. The leaves are oval or sword shaped. They are 7 cm long by 3 cm wide. The flowers are 7 mm across. There are 2 or 3 flowers together in the axils of leaves. The petals are white. The fruit is a berry that is orange or red.
Life form perennial
Growth form
Growth support -
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 1.5 - 5.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

It is a subtropical plant.
Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture 5-6
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

The ripe fruit are eaten.
Uses medicinal
Edible fruits
Therapeutic use Rheumatism (unspecified), Vermifuge (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
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Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Productivity -

Images

Eugenia roxburghii unspecified picture

Distribution

Eugenia roxburghii world distribution map, present in Bangladesh, India, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Pakistan, Thailand, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:595823-1
WFO ID wfo-0000958906
COL ID 3C66Y
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Myrtus coromandelina Myrtus heynei Myrtus latifolia Myrtus littoralis Syzygium bracteatum Myrtus bracteata Myrtus quadripartita Myrtus ruscifolia Eugenia rothii Eugenia roxburghii Eugenia willdenowii Eugenia bracteata Eugenia fasciculata Eugenia heynei Eugenia macrosepala Eugenia zeylanica Syzygium ruscifolium Eugenia bracteata var. roxburghii Eugenia bracteata var. fasciculata Eugenia rothii var. fasciculata Syzygium latifolium