Fabaceae / Papilionaceae

Myrtaceae
Syzygium cumini (L.) Skeel
(Syn: Eugenia jambolina Lam.)
English name: Black berry, Jambal.
Local name: Jaman, Jammo.
Description:
A large evergreen tropical tree usually 15-30 meters tall with light grey and slightly
smooth bark. It has fragrant white flowers in branched clusters at stem tips and
purplish black oval edible berries.
Flowering Period:
March - May.
Habitat:
It is a fruit tree mostly cultivated in the edges of Mango
orchards.
Uses:
All parts of the tree can be used medicinally. Its fruit and
seed are used in bilious diarrhea and diabetes. Juice of
ripe fruit made into vinegar is used as stomachic,
carminative and diuretic. Bark is astringent; decoction
is used as gargle and washes.
Distribution:
Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Afghanistan, Brazil
and USA. It is found along the Sub-Himalayan tracts, often
planted and self sown in plains of Punjab and
Balochistan.
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