Botanical name: Syzygium montanum    Family: Myrtaceae (Bottlebrush family)
Synonyms: Syzygium tamilnadense, Eugenia montana, Syzygium lakshmananii

Tamilnadu Plum is a tree up to 15 m tall, with bark grey, scaly; blaze cream. Branchlets are stout, four-edged and narrowly winged, hairless. Leaves are simple, opposite, arranged in mutually perpedicular pairs, leaf-stalk 0.4-1.2 cm long, channeled above, hairless. Leaf-blade is 6.5-12.5 x 3.3-7.5 cm, elliptic to broad elliptic or obovate, tip blunt to rounded; base wedge-shaped, margin entire, pellucid gland dotted, leathery, hairless; midrib distinctly channeled above; intramarginal nerve present; secondary nerves about 12 pairs; tertiary nerves obscure. Flowers are small, borne at branch-ends in corymb-like cymes. Fruit is spherical, purple, 0.8 cm across, crowned with persistent sepal-cup, with a single seed. Tamilnadu Plum is native to Western Ghats.

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