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Syzygium racemosum (Blume) DC.

This article should be read together with the article on the genus: Syzygium in the Handbook volume indicated above in this database.

Prodr. 3: 261 (1828).

Eugenia jamboloides Koord. & Valeton (1900).

Indonesia: kopo mangud, resep (Java), klampok bato (Madura).

Java and Borneo (Kalimantan).

The timber is occasionally used for house building. The bark is used to prepare a black dye.

SUP> A small to medium-sized tree up to 22 m tall, bole up to 65 cm in diameter, often bent and short, branches usually grey or yellowish-brown; leaves elliptical-oblong to lanceolate, 8—15 cm 3.5—5 cm, secondary veins up to 25 pairs, usually less than 5 mm from each other, faintly visible below, petiole up to 15 mm long; flowers in axillary or terminal many-flowered panicles, white, calyx c. 5 mm long, lobes nearly absent; fruit globose, up to 20 mm in diameter. Syzygium javanicum Miq. from Sumatra and Java and Syzygium cerasiforme (Blume) Merr. & Perry (synonym: Eugenia cerasiformis (Blume) DC.) from Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java and Borneo are possibly conspecific. Syzygium racemosum occurs in Java in teak forest and mixed forest up to 1200 m altitude. The density of the wood is 850—960 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

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R.H.M.J. Lemmens

Lemmens, R.H.M.J., 1995. Syzygium racemosum (Blume) DC.. In: Lemmens, R.H.M.J., Soerianegara, I. and Wong, W.C. (Editors): Plant Resources of South-East Asia No 5(2): Timber trees; Minor commercial timbers. PROSEA Foundation, Bogor, Indonesia. Database record: prota4u.org/prosea