Syzygium laetum (Buch.-Ham.) Gandhi

siz-ZY-gee-um -- Greek: syzygos (joined), referring to the paired leaves ... Dave's Botanary
LEE-tum OR LAY-tum -- happy, vivid ... Dave's Botanary

commonly known as: red-flower plum • Kannada: ದೇವ ನೇರಳೆ deva nerale • Konkani: देव जांभूळ dev jambhul • Malayalam: കൊള്ളിഞാവൽ kollinjaaval • Marathi: देव जांभूळ dev jambhul • Tamil: மலை நாவல் malai naaval


botanical names: Syzygium laetum (Buch.-Ham.) Gandhi ... homotypic synonyms: Eugenia laeta Buch.-Ham. • Jambosa laeta (Buch.-Ham.) Blume ... and more at POWO, retrieved 18 October 2024

Bibliography / etymology

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~~~~~ ENGLISH ~~~~~

written and spoken widely, in most parts of India

red-flower plum

• for want of name, name coined by Flowers of India, retrieved October 19, 2024

~~~~~ KANNADA ~~~~~

written in: Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ) ... spoken in: Karnataka

ದೇವ ನೇರಳೆ deva nerale

• name coined, for want of name; based on lines of Marathi coined name - देव जांभूळ dev jambhul ... ದೇವ deva = God, divine ;ನೇರಳೆ nerale = name given to Syzygium cumini (L.) Skeels

~~~~~ KONKANI ~~~~~

written in: Devanagari (कोंकणी), Kannada (ಕೊಂಕಣಿ), Malayalam (കൊങ്കണി), Perso-Arabic (کونکنی), Romi (Konknni) ... spoken in: Goa, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Kerala, Gujarat

देव जांभूळ dev jambhul

• name borrowed from Marathi, for want of name

~~~~~ MALAYALAM ~~~~~

written in: Malayalam (മലയാളം) ... spoken in: Kerala, Lakshadweep

കൊള്ളിഞാവൽ kollinjaaval

• വിക്കിപീഡിയ - സ്വതന്ത്രസർവ്വവിജ്ഞാനകോശം ... Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia
• BIOTIK (Biodiversity Informatics and co-operation in Taxonomy for Interactive shared Knowledge base)

~~~~~ MARATHI ~~~~~

written in: Devanagari (मराठी) ... spoken in: Maharashtra, Karnataka

देव जांभूळ dev jambhul

• name coined, for want of name, by Shrikant Ingalhalikar, the author of Further Flowers of Sahyadri, the second among the three field guides to identify plants of northern Western Ghats of India, based on flowers

~~~~~ TAMIL ~~~~~

written in: Tamil (தமிழ்) ... spoken in: Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Andaman & Nicobar Islands

மலை நாவல் malai naaval

• name coined, for want of name; many thanks to Dr Vijayasankar Raman for help with this name ... efloraofindia ... மலை நாவல் malai naaval = hill jamun

~~~~~ DISTRIBUTION in INDIA ~~~~~

Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra

NOTE: not endemic to India; known to be distributed globally in Myanmar, Thailand

• Datar, Mandar & Lakshminarasimhan, P.. (2013). Check List of Wild Angiosperms of Bhagwan Mahavir (Molem) National Park, Goa, India. Check List. 9. 186-207. 10.15560/9.2.186.
• Hassler, Michael (1994 - 2024): World Plants. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. Version 24.10; last update October 9th, 2024. Last accessed 17/10/2024 (dd/mm/yyyy).

~~~~~ Created on: 22:31 17-10-2024 ¦ Last updated: 14:06 28-10-2024 ~~~~~

Myrtaceae evergreen understorey tree "Syzygium laetum" "Eugenia laeta" "Jambosa laeta" "red-flower plum"