Melaleuca cajuputi
gelam, kayu putih
Tenasserim to Maluku. Tall tree with narrow crown, often twisted trunk. White bark, fissured and papery-flaky in elongated shaggy pieces, used for caulking. Young leaves silky. Common in coastal swamp. Medicinal oil from leaves.
Rhodomyrtus tomentosa
kemunting
SE Asia, common Malaya, esp. in open sandy ground. Sweet edible fruit. Leaves opposite with 3 distinctive longitudinal veins, underside thinly
white, woolly (tomentosa).
Syzygium aromaticum
cingkeh, clove
Traditionally added to cigarettes (kretek) and food for fragrance. Shoots and leaves chewed for bad breath and to relieve toothache. Sun dried flower buds are the cloves of commerce.
Syzygium borneense
(previously Syzygium microcalyx)
kelat
Endemic, from Penang to Singapore, west of ranges. Not uncommon. Leaf margin curls inwards. Flowers yellow white, fruit waxy white tinged red, globose, 5mm. Single seed.2 from TH 11/09.
Syzygium pseudosubtilis
(previously Eugenia pseudosubtilis)
kerian
Thailand, Malaya Sumatra, common in swampy forests and near padi fields. Up to 80 ft., flowers 1/4″, green, red after opening with strange sour fragrance. Green fruit ripens through red to black, sweet and juicy.
Syzygium campanulatum
kelat jambu
Not listed in Tree Flora of Malaya; possibly a recently described species.
Syzygium chloranthum
kelat merah
Annam, Siam, Sumatra, Borneo. Lowland and hill forests from Kedah to Singapore. Flowers green
white with red stamens, fruit sub-globular, to
2cm, green flushed rose purple. 2 from TH 11/09.
Syzygium claviflorum
jambu arang, kelat merah
Family: leaves opposite, elliptic or oblong, usually pointed, shortly stalked with distinct marginal veins. Flowers fluffy with stamens. 1,000 species in the tropics, 150 in Malaysia. Largest genus in Malaya in species & individuals. This sp. leaves wither scarlet.
Syzygium cumingianum
kelat
Assam, Burma, Siam, S China, Malesia to Solomon Is.
Medium tree to 20m, white flowers,
fruit depressed globose, white ripening blue
black. Single seed. 2 from TH 11/09.
Syzygium cumini
Syzygium grande
jambu laut
Malaya, Siam, Borneo. Common on rocky and sandy coasts, never wild inland, but now commonly planted. Large broadly elliptic leaves with distinct down turned tip. Fruit oblong with green leathery rind, but edible. Thick bark can stand lalang fires.
Syzygium jambos
Syzygium malaccense
jambu bol
Origin uncertain cultivated. Up to 18m., very large leaf blade, large crimson flowers, pear shaped variegated crimson/white tasteless fruit.
Syzygium pyrifolium
kelat
Siam, Malaya, Borneo. Common from Kedah to Singapore. Tree to 18m, grey brown bark, smooth to cracking. Fragrant flowers, calyx tapered to base with a constriction the middle. Very close to S. longiflora. 2 from TH 11/09.
Syzygium spicatum
Syzygium zeylanicum syn S. spicatum
gelam tikus
India, China, Malesia. Shrub to 18m, common from Kedah & Trengganu to Singapore, by sea and rivers. Flowers white sessile, terminal; white fruit oblong globose, 6mm, sweet periocarp. 2 from TH 11/09.
Syzygium sp.
kelat, jambu
Unidentified sp from peat swamps of Pekan.
4 from Elango 6/08.
Syzygium sp.
Previously S. bonsai.
Hybrid?
Tristaniopsis merguensis
pelawan, pahlawan, keruntum
From Mergu, Burma. Widely distributed fromrocky coasts to mountains. Bark orange to grey,
peels like Eucalyptus in spiraled scrolls. Yellow
flowers in compact clusters. 1 from TH 11/09.
Tristaniopsis pontianensis
pelawan
S Johor, endemic, but this fr Trengganu FR. Young leaves densely coppery red pubescent.Fr Tunas Harapan 6.2012.
Tristaniopsis obovata
pelawan
Malaya, Rhiau, Sarawak.
On rocky headlands from P.D. to Singapore
& along east coast of Johor. Characteristic peeling bark, twigs with smooth blood red bark.
Tristaniopsis sumatrana
pelawan, seluncur
W. Malesia. Common riverside tree up to 25m. often arching over water. Saplings have grey bark eventually peeling to reveal smooth orange
trunk, glossy green crown. Leaf blade distinctly tipped, tapered to 1cm. stalk. Note: this species does not exist on The Plant List. References exist that T. sumatrana is a synonym for T. whiteana.