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Sea Apple
Syzygium grande
Syzygium grande or sea apple is a species of tree native to tropical Asia. It is an evergreen tree which can grow up to 20 metres tall. Its leaves are large with dark green color. It is native to Indochina (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam), the Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, northeastern India, south-central China, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, and Sumatra, and possibility to southern India and Sri Lanka. It grows in lowland tropical moist forest and along roadsides.
The species was first described as Eugenia grandis by Robert Wight in 1841. In 1843, Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers placed the species in genus Syzygium as S. grande.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 343768.