Pini jambu: Exotic fruit in Nepal.
Syzygium samarangense, a plant species within the Myrtaceae , native to a neighborhood that has the Greater Sunda Islands , Malay Peninsula and therefore the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
It is not so common to Nepal but in some of the home gardens we could find them. It is a tropical tree growing to 12 metres (39 ft) tall, with evergreen leaves 10–25 centimetres (4–10 in) long and 5–10 centimetres (2–4 in) broad.The flowers are white to yellowish-white, 2.5 cm (1 in) diameter, with four petals and numerous stamens. They form in panicle of between 3 and 30 near branch tips. The resulting fruit may be a bell-shaped, edible berry, with colors starting from white, pale green, or green to red, purple, or crimson, to deep purple or maybe black. The fruit grows 4–6 centimetres (1.6–2.4 in) long in wild plants, and has 4 fleshy calyx lobes at the tip. Fruits tastes like watery and somewhat like snow pear and watermelon.
The information of this most probably a new exotic species to Nepal is still lacking. Soon I will be done with this, I will be there with more details on its ethnobotanical values.
19 Comments
Greetings sandesh
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Asmita Gaire
Posted 29-09-2020 23:56
welcome paras
Posted 02-08-2020 14:51
Hello Sandesh,
I hope you are fine and doing good.
Thank you for this informative report about Pini jambu
Keep writing.
Green Cheers.
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Paras Kunwar
Posted 01-08-2020 02:09
welcome asmita bhusal
Posted 20-07-2020 18:53
Nice report!! Thanks for sharing. Keep writing!
Posted 20-07-2020 18:36
welcome shreya
Posted 14-07-2020 21:09
Hello Sandesh,
I hope you are fine and doing good with your work.
Thank you for sharing about pini jambu .I have never known about it before.
Thank you for your report.
Regards,
Shreya Aryal
Posted 14-07-2020 17:41
Welcome sandhya.
Posted 13-07-2020 02:13
Hello Sandesh brotheer,
Thanks for letting us know about this exotic fruit,
Keep writing,
Yours,
Sandhya
Posted 13-07-2020 02:12
welcome bal krishna pandey
Posted 12-07-2020 21:17
Hello,
This is Bal krishna Pandey from Nepal.
I would like to express my gratitude to you for this wonderful report. It is a good news to read this kind of beautifully written detailed report.
keep writing keep shining
green cheers~
Posted 12-07-2020 19:18
Greetings Rijana,
you are welcome.
Regards,
Sandesh!!!
Posted 03-07-2020 23:38
Greetings Sagar dada,
you are highly welcomed.
Regards,
Sandesh!!!
Posted 03-07-2020 23:37
Nice.
Posted 03-07-2020 22:47
Hello Bhai,
Thanks for this wonderful information
Regards,
Sagar Koirala
Posted 03-07-2020 22:35
Welcome arati.
Posted 03-07-2020 01:04
thankyou himani, i will for sure soon i complete my work with this commodity.
Posted 03-07-2020 01:04
Hello Sandesh,
This species is totally new for me to know.
Thank you so much for shariing.
Posted 02-07-2020 20:29
Hello Mr. Sandesh Thapa
Even this is my first encounter with this fruit. So, thank you so much for sharing about this fruit. Will be waiting to know more about its importance, values, if possible on how can it contribute to the indigenous societies, for food security purposes.
Posted 02-07-2020 13:32