About the genus · Syzygium
Syzygium is a genus of flowering plants that belongs to the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. The genus comprises about 1200 species, and has a native range that extends from Africa and Madagascar through southern Asia east through the Pacific. Its highest levels of diversity occur from Malaysia to northeastern Australia, where many species are very poorly known and many more have not been described taxonomically. More on Wikipedia ›
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Photographs: Teresa Grau Ros from Barcelona, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; PQ77wd, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Other Syzygium 85 in the reference
Syzygium acuminatissimum Myrtaceae Photo: CC BY, Cheng-Te Hsu
Syzygium alatoramulum Tinkling stainash Photo: CC BY-SA, Steve Fitzgerald
Syzygium alliiligneum Mission Beach satinash Photo: CC BY-SA, Evert Materman
Syzygium angophoroides Swamp Satinash Photo: CC BY, Roland Muench
Syzygium anisatum Anise myrtle Photo: CC BY-SA, Lachlan Copeland
Syzygium antisepticum Myrtaceae Photo: CC BY, luluchouette
Syzygium apodophyllum Rex Satinash Photo: CC BY-SA, Evert Materman
Syzygium aqueum Watery rose apple Photo: CC BY, T R Shankar Raman Syzygium armstrongii Small White Bush Apple
Syzygium aromaticum Clove Photo: CC BY, Eric Knight
Syzygium australe Australian brush-cherry Photo: CC BY, Dave Richardson all 86 ›Names & registers
The record
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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
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