Syzygium forte (PROSEA)
Introduction |
Syzygium forte (F. v. Mueller) B. Hyland
- Protologue: Austr. Journ. Bot., Suppl. Ser. 9: 88 (1983).
Synonyms
Eugenia fortis F. v. Mueller (1865), Syzygium rubiginosum Merr. & Perry (1942).
Vernacular names
- White apple, flaky-barked satinash (En).
Distribution
Papua New Guinea and northern Australia.
Uses
The timber is occasionally used and marketed. The fruits are sometimes eaten.
Observations
A medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall, bole cylindrical or slightly fissured, up to 100 cm in diameter, occasionally buttressed, bark surface papery flaky, reddish-brown; leaves orbicular or obovate to narrowly ovate, elliptical or lanceolate, 7-14.5 cm × 2.5-10.5 cm, with 8-15 pairs of distinct secondary veins, petiole up to 16 mm long; flowers in terminal paniculate inflorescences (or in upper leaf axils), white, calyx up to 10 mm long, with 4 subequal lobes; fruit depressed globular to ovoid, up to 40 mm in diameter, whitish. S. forte is locally common in lowland rain forest, especially near rivers. The density of the wood is 690-960 kg/m3at 15% moisture content.
Selected sources
221, 249, 430.