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Fibrous satinash
Syzygium fibrosum
Syzygium fibrosum is a species of trees native to rainforest, monsoon forest, and gallery forest of New Guinea and northern Australia. Common names include small red apple, (Bamaga) fibrous satinash and apricot satinash.
From the article Syzygium fibrosum on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Leaves are opposite, smooth, leathery, elliptic, and measure up to 11 cm (4.3 in) long and 5.5 cm (2.2 in) wide. The flowers are cream with numerous stamens. The pink or red fruit have a flattened globular shape and are about 2 cm (0.79 in) wide, containing a singular seed.
At the table
The tree is cultivated to a limited extent for its sour fruit, which are used in jams and confectionery.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Uses”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Syzygium fibrosum in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
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 370090.