Syzygium corynanthum

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Syzygium corynanthum

Syzygium corynanthum Boorganna Nature Reserve near Taree, New South Wales, Australia.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Myrtales
Family:	Myrtaceae
Genus:	Syzygium
Species:	S. corynanthum
Binomial name
*Syzygium corynanthum* (F.Muell.) L.A.S.Johnson
Synonyms
Eugenia corynantha F.Muell.

Syzygium corynanthum, commonly known as sour cherry and Killarney satinash, is a common Australian tree which grows in surrounding areas from Taree, New South Wales (31 ° S) to tropical Queensland.The habitat of Syzygium corynanthum is rainforest on basaltic or fertile alluvial soils.

Description

Syzygium corynanthum is a medium size tree, which can reach 30 metres in height and a 90 cm in trunk diameter. The tree's crown appears dark and full.

The bark is grey and scaly, with numerous depressions caused by the shedding of bark scales. Syzygium corynanthum are slightly buttressed at the base.

Leaves, flowers and fruit

The leaves are opposite, simple and entire with numerous oil dots, about five diameters apart of different sizes. Leaf stalks are 6mm long. Flowers are in short dense panicles. Petals are cream, four in number and appear from April to July.

The fruit matures from September to December, being a red berry,^[1] broader towards the tip than at the base. Four persistent calyx lobes surround the base of the fruit, from which the style usually protrudes. The taste of the fruit is not particularly sour, as the common name might suggest.

Seed germination is slow, commencing at 40 days, and completing after 200 days. The fruit is prone to insect attacks. Soaking the seeds is recommended to drown insect larvae. The fruit is eaten by many rainforest birds, including the wompoo fruit dove and catbird.

References

^ Floyd, A. G. (2008). Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia (2nd, Revised ed.). Lismore, New South Wales: Terania Rainforest Publishing. p. 256. ISBN 978-0-958943-67-3. Archived from the original on 2022-04-17. Retrieved 2017-02-20.

Syzygium corynanthum at NSW Flora Online Retrieved on 2009-08-04

Taxon identifiers
Syzygium corynanthum	Wikidata: Q7663973 Wikispecies: Syzygium corynanthum APNI: 64634 ATRF: Syzygium_corynanthum BOLD: 571158 CoL: 545X7 GBIF: 3184255 iNaturalist: 370088 IPNI: 601589-1 NCBI: 334477 NSWFlora: Syzygium~corynanthum Open Tree of Life: 106466 Plant List: kew-199462 POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:601589-1 Tropicos: 100263946 WFO: wfo-0000318506
Eugenia corynantha	Wikidata: Q39286715 APNI: 82832 CoL: 6H8N4 GBIF: 5419397 IPNI: 594116-1 POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:594116-1 Tropicos: 100189186 WFO: wfo-0000956944

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