• Scientific Name: Syzygium samarangense (Blume) Merr. & L.M.Perry
• Ref: J. Arnold Arbor. 19:115. 1938
• Synonyms:
  • Eugenia alba Roxb.
  • E. mindanaensis C.B.Rob.
  • E. samarangensis (Blume) O.Berg
  • Jambosa alba (Roxb.) G.Don
  • J. ambigua Blume
  • J. obtusissima (Blume) DC.
  • J. samarangensis (Blume) DC.
  • J. timorensis Blume
  • Myrtus obtusissima Blume
  • M. samarangensis Blume
  • M. timorensis Zipp. ex Span.
• English Common Name: wax apple, Java apple, Semarang rose-apple, bell apple, wax jambu
• Chinese Common Name: 洋蒲桃 yáng∙pútáo, 金山蒲桃 Jīnshān pútáo, 爪哇蒲桃 Zhuǎwa pútáo, 天桃 tiāntáo, 莲雾 [闽南]lián-bū
• Japanese Common Name: レンブ [蓮霧] renbu
• Family: Myrtaceae
• Genus: Syzygium
• Distribution: Cultivated in Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, and Yunnan [native to Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, and Thailand].
• Photo: 06/18/2009, Xiamen, Fujian
• Note: specific epithet comes from Semarang, largest city in Central Java province, Indonesia.

Trees, to 12 m tall. Branchlets compressed. Petiole less than 4 mm to sometimes nearly absent; leaf blade elliptic to oblong, 10-22 × 5-8 cm, thinly leathery, abaxially with numerous small glands, adaxially turning yellowish brown when dry, secondary veins 14-19 on each side of midvein, 6-10 mm apart, and at an angle of ca. 45° from midvein, reticule veins conspicuous, intramarginal veins ca. 5 mm from margin and an additional intramarginal vein ca. 1.5 mm from margin, base narrow, rounded, or slightly cordate, apex obtuse to slightly acute. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, cymes, 5-6 cm, several-flowered. Flowers white. Hypanthium obconic, 7-8 × 6-7 mm. Calyx lobes 4, semiorbicular, ca. 4 × 4 mm or larger. Petals 4, distinct, 1-1.3 cm. Stamens numerous, ca. 1.5 cm. Style 2.5-3 cm. Fruit dark red, pyriform to conic, 4-5 cm, fleshy, glossy, apex impressed; persistent sepals fleshy. Seed 1. Fl. Mar-Apr, fr. May-Jun. (Flora of China)