Botanical name: Syzygium densiflorum    Family: Myrtaceae (Bottlebrush family)
Synonyms: Eugenia arnottiana (superfl.), Syzygium arnottianum (superfl.)

Nilgiri Plum is an evergreen tree, up to 20 m tall, bark surface blackish-grey, rough; branchlets round. Leaves are simple, opposite, leaf-stalk 0.3-2 cm long, slender, grooved above, hairless; blade 3.5-9 x 1.8-3.7 cm, elliptic, elliptic-lanceshaped or elliptic-oblong, base narrowed or pointed, tip tapering or with a tail, margin entire, hairless, glandular dotted, leathery, olive-green when dry; lateral nerves many, parallel, close, prominent, looped at the margin forming intramarginal nerve, intercostae netveined, prominent. Flowers are bisexual, creamy, 1-1.2 cm long, stalkless, in dense clusters forming compact, branch-end trichotomous cymes. Sepal-tube is up to 5 mm, top-shaped; sepals 4; no thick disc, petals free, falling off, stamens many, free, bent inwards at the middle in bud; ovary inferior, 2-celled, ovules many; style 1; stigma simple. Fruit is a berry, oblong-ovoid, dark purple, fleshy. Nilgiri Plum is endemic to Southern Western Ghats.

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