I picked up a few fairly obscure syzygium species fruits from the gardens this week and let them sit a few days. The first was Syzygium monospermum, a large white fruit almost identical to S cormiflorum, which I've posted about before. Monospermum is a fair bit larger though. Fruiting is the same and spectacular cauliflory on a tall single trucked tree, with fruits in big clusters all the way to the ground. I didn't expect a lot from the fruit, being so similar to cormiflorum, which tasted like cardboard mushrooms, but I let them sit a few days. They have the same dry thick flesh the texture of firm mushroom, but they have a subtle sweet taste, very like a pear. The flavour is subtle though, but quite pleasant.
Second was labelled as a Syzygium wilsonii ssp. With purple fruit. First thought is that it might be plum satinash, but the leaves are long and leathery and the plant is an open understory smallish shrub very much like wilsonii. Again I dint expect much because of the fairly terrible quality of the hedging wilsonii around. The deep purple fruits are very nice - sweet, soft, a bit melting even. Struggling for a comparison, quite unlike any other lily pily type syzygiums.
Surprised by both these plants and would gladly grow them in a rainforest style planting.