| Type | Exotic |
|---|---|
| Family | Myrtaceae |
| Common Name | Watery rose apple |
| Origin | E. India and Malaysia |
| Botanical Features | Trees, bark tawny-brown; branchlets first bluntly quadrangular, quickly terete. Leaves simple, opposite, estipulate; petiole 1-5 mm long, stout, glabrous; lamina 4.5-23 x 1.5-11 cm, elliptic-obovate, obovate or elliptic-oblong, base cuneate, subcordate or obtuse, apex obtuse, obtusely acuminate, acuminate or subretuse, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 9-14 pairs, parallel, the margin forming intramarginal nerve, gland-dotted. flowers bisexual, pinkish-white, fruit a berry, globose, red. |