Syzygium formosum (Wall.) Masam.

A tree. It has widely spreading branches. The bark is ash coloured. It has scars from where the leaves fell. The leaves have leaf stalks. The leaves are crowded at the ends of small branches. They are oblong and taper to a point. They are leathery and shiny above but paler underneath. They can be heart shaped at the base. The flowers are purple and turn red. The fruit is a berry. It is round but flattened.

An understorey tree in undisturbed mixed dipterocarp forests at elevations up to 300 metres. Usually along streams and rivers on sandy to clay soils. In secondary forests usually present as a pre-disturbance remnant.

The ripe fruit are edible. The calyces are used as a vegetable. They are cooked with other vegetables or fish. Young leaves are eaten as a fresh vegetable along with other vegetables and herbs and boiled pork.

Plants are grown from seed.