Syzygium stocksii

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PLEASE IDENTIFY THE SYZYGIUM:
THIS IS PLANT WITH QUADRANGULAR STEM.

Sterile specimens are difficult to identify.  Do you have the flower?
Free or coherent petalled? The 1st possibility is Syzygium assimile Thwaites, Enum. Pl. Zeyl.: 116 (1859).

If its from south or central Western Ghats then it could be Syzigium tamilnadense

There are two possibilities:
Syzygium travancoricum or Syzygium stocksii. If it is smelled like tender mango, it must be S. travancoricum. S. stocksii doesn’t have such characteristic smell

LEAVES HAVE SMELL LIKE TENDER MANGO

Then it should be Syzygium travancoricum Gamble

We, at present, work on the pollination ecology, seed dispersal and recruitment of 5 species of Syzygiums this species is one among them.
There is hardly any difference between S. travencoricum and S. stocksii in its floral characters.
This species has been reported from Kerala and Karnataka that too from few remote places. Red listed plant according to IUCN.

The specimens are of Syzygium travancoricum Gamble (MYRTACEAE), an endemic species of southern Western Ghats.

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Garcinia ? SN Sep 59 : 6 posts by 5 authors. Attachments (3).
Cultivated tree near Gudalur Nilgiri dt Tamilnadu, leaves give mango smell when crushed.

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Possibly some Syzygium sp.

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It seems to Garcinia talboti

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It doesn’t look like Garcinia to me

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I too think it is a Syzygium sp?

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Syzygium travancoricum

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Tree for ID :: Devgad, Konkan, May 2017 :: ARKMAY22 : 6 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (4)
Please ID this tree seen near Devgad, MH in May 2017.

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It is very difficult to get the plant, all four images are same, may be a Lythraceae member.

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This looks like Salai [Aporusa lindleyana]. [The leaves highlighted in the 3rd photograph are of a different plant.]

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Thank you … for the possible ID. Would like to hear more comments.
Since the tree was in a very densely wooded forest (sacred grove), I may have got confused, thinking the leaves are of the same tree. Would like some other opinions as well.

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This ID has been corrected to Syzygium stocksii at iNaturalist by Shiwalee

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655 ID wild tree Syzygium: 23 high res. images.
Please ID wild tree, fallen flower specimen,
Location: Chathamattom Ernakulam Kerala INDIA
Altitude: 1000fsl
Flower date: 10APR2025, 07pm
Habitat: wild moisture sloppy streamside
Plant habit: branched deciduous tree overgrown, erect, hard woody cylindrical trunk 55 inches circumference, rough flaky bark, rooted medium old branches, light purplish sprouts, quadrangular twigs
Height: 12 meter
Leaves: opposite elliptic acute flexible glossy smooth; aromatic smell and taste, size upto: 17×8cm
Flower: axillary panicle inflorescence at terminals, clustered, diameter:05mm, yellow, fragrant
Fruit: berry green into deep violet ovoid glabrous

Seed:

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Closest I can go is
https://efloraofindia.com/efi/syzygium-venosum/
But it looks different.

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Syzygium stocksii (=S. travancoricum)

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It is S. travancoricum, it’s leaves having aromatic smelling and tasting like tender mango.

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