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Need Help Identifying Tree
« on: March 25, 2012, 09:22:30 PM »
Found this today growing in the corner of the grove, any suggestions on it's ID?





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Re: Need Help Identifying Tree
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2012, 11:19:38 PM »
I think that is Java plum, Syzigiium cuminii.
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Re: Need Help Identifying Tree
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2012, 11:37:30 PM »
Looks like Antidesma (Bignay)
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Re: Need Help Identifying Tree
« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2012, 09:28:38 AM »
The java plums I have seen have been more elongated and less round than these pictured.  However, while the individual fruits are more rounded and therfore do have some resemblance to individual bignay fruits, the way the fruits are held on the tree and the lack of clustering that you see in Bignay, makes me think this is more likely Java Plum and not Bignay.

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Re: Need Help Identifying Tree
« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2012, 03:18:17 PM »
Syzygium for sure! I also think it could be a little atipical cumini specimen...

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Re: Need Help Identifying Tree
« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2012, 08:33:46 PM »
Thanks all for your responses.  I missed the name of the tree was I was a young'n, probably wasn't paying attention.  A fairly tall and scraggly tree now, should i propagate it by seed, air-layering, cuttings? 

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Re: Need Help Identifying Tree
« Reply #6 on: March 27, 2012, 05:47:20 AM »
You can't taste the fruit? That would make it a lot easier to identify.
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