Common names: water berry (Eng.); waterbessie, waterbessieboom, waterboom, waterhout (Afr.); umdoni (Zulu); umswi, umjomi (Xhosa), mawthoo (Southern Sotho), motlho
Family: Myrtaceae
... The fruits are oval berries, red to dark-purple when ripe. Syzygium cordatum occurs along streambanks from the Eastern ... large hairy caterpillars that sometimes infest the tree. Syzygium The tree is best grown from seed. For better ... According to Pitman and Palmer (1972), the generic name Syzygium is based on a Greek word meaning 'coupled', an ...
13 / 09 / 2004 | Berenice Carolus | Harold Porter NBG
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