Eugenia mooniana

Description

Eugenia mooniana, is a species of plant in the Myrtaceae family which is native to Western Ghats of India and Sri Lanka. It is a 8m tall tree with terete branchlets. Leaves are simple, opposite; lamina elliptic to narrow elliptic; apex caudate-acuminate with blunt tip; base acute to rounded with entire margin. Flowers are white colored. Fruit is a globose, glabrous, single-seeded berry. Flowering starts from October and ends in December. The plant is known as pinibaru by Sinhalese people in Sri Lanka.