WorldFloraDB - Syzygium taiwanicum

Characteristics

Trees, small. Branchlets grayish brown when dry, slender, 4-angled. Petiole 4-5 mm; leaf blade long elliptic, 5-7 × 2-3 cm, leathery, abaxially slightly yellowish brown when dry, adaxially grayish green and not glossy when dry, secondary veins ca. 1.5 mm apart, at an angle of ca. 70° from midvein, abaxially inconspicuous, and adaxially slightly impressed, intramarginal veins ca. 1 mm from margin, base broadly cuneate, apex slightly acute and with an obtuse cusp. Inflorescences axillary, cymes, flowers (1 or)2 or 3. Hypanthium clavate, ca. 2 cm. Calyx lobes semiorbicular. Fruit long clavoid. Fl. Mar-Apr, fr. Nov-Dec.

More

A medium sized tree. The end branches are 4 angled. The leaves are opposite and leathery. They are narrowly oval or sword shaped and 6-7 cm long by 2-2.5 cm wide. There are 20-30 veins on each side of the midrib. The flowers are in the axils of leaves and can occur singly or as 2-4 together. The fruit are 2 cm long and about 1 cm wide.

Life form

-

Growth form

tree

Growth support

free-standing

Foliage retention

-

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

-

Spread

-

Mature width (meter)

-

Mature height (meter)

-

Root system

-

Rooting depth (meter)

-

Root diameter (meter)

-

Flower color

-

Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Fruit color

-

Fruiting months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Nitrogen fixer

-

Photosynthetic pathway

-

Environment

It is a tropical plant. It grows in broad-leaved evergreen forest. In Taiwan it grows between 100-400 m above sea level.

Light	-
Soil humidity	-
Soil texture	-
Soil acidity	-
Soil nutriment	-
Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

Uses	-
Edible	-
Therapeutic use	-
Human toxicity	-
Animal toxicity	-

Cultivation

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

Distribution

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:907516-1
WFO ID	wfo-0000319508
COL ID	546W6
BDTFX ID	-
INPN ID	-
Wikipedia (EN)
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Syzygium taiwanicum Syzygium claviflorum var. oblongifolium Eugenia claviflora var. oblongifolia

WorldFloraDB 2024

Syzygium taiwanicum H.T.Chang & R.H.Miao

Species