Syzygium samarangense (Blume) Merr. & L.M.Perry
Java Apple (EN), Java-Apfel (DE), Java-apple, Java-apple
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Summary
Syzygium samarangense is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae, native to an area that includes the Greater Sunda Islands, Malay Peninsula, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, but introduced in prehistoric times to a wider area and now widely cultivated in the tropics. Common names in English include wax apple, Java apple, Semarang rose-apple, and wax jambu.
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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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At a glance
Also known as Eugenia javanica Lam.; Eugenia javanica subsp. parviflora Craib; Eugenia javanica subsp. roxburghiana Duthie; Eugenia javanica var. parviflora Craib; Eugenia javanica var. roxburghiana Duthie and 14 more.
Cultivation
Its year Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (May to December at the habitat (not shifted)).
This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.
The rain rule reads no season: 70% of the year's rain (1658 mm of 2279 mm) takes 8 months, May to December. Mean temperature moves 1.5 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere, within 10° of the equator; with no thermal season there there is no season to reverse, so they are not shifted for a collection elsewhere.
Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.
Rain Habitat rain 2279 mm a year, wettest September at 238 mm, driest February at 118 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
2279 mm a year at the habitat, 1658 mm of it May to December. Wettest month September at 238 mm, driest February at 118 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 1487 mm to 3693 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).
CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.
Light Open sky over the habitat: 29 to 37 mol/m²/day.
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
Open sky over the habitat: 29 to 37 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 24, the highest 90th-percentile month 43).
CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.
Warmth and air Cold floor 23.2 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is 23.2 °C, the absolute minimum 22.1 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 31.4 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 22.9 °C in January (across the envelope cells 14.5 °C to 25.6 °C), warmest day 29.7 °C in April (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 23.2 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).
NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.
Relative humidity at the habitat: 64 to 66% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.
CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.
The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.
Climate across the habitat
Figures by month
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day °C | 28 / 25–30 | 28 / 27–32 | 29 / 27–34 | 30 / 27–35 | 29 / 27–34 | 29 / 26–32 | 28 / 25–31 | 28 / 25–31 | 28 / 26–31 | 29 / 26–31 | 28 / 26–30 | 28 / 25–30 |
| Night °C | 23 / 15–26 | 23 / 16–26 | 24 / 19–26 | 25 / 21–26 | 25 / 21–27 | 25 / 20–27 | 24 / 20–26 | 24 / 19–26 | 24 / 20–26 | 24 / 19–26 | 23 / 18–26 | 23 / 15–26 |
| Rain mm | 151 / 3–397 | 118 / 4–380 | 175 / 15–350 | 177 / 47–309 | 204 / 109–314 | 220 / 108–595 | 221 / 94–688 | 206 / 75–546 | 238 / 90–370 | 203 / 104–334 | 184 / 33–319 | 182 / 7–355 |
| DLI | 33 / 28–37 | 35 / 29–40 | 37 / 31–43 | 37 / 30–43 | 33 / 28–41 | 30 / 25–34 | 29 / 24–34 | 31 / 26–37 | 33 / 27–38 | 33 / 29–39 | 31 / 28–39 | 31 / 27–35 |
| RH % | 64 / 53–72 | 64 / 52–72 | 65 / 50–71 | 65 / 55–71 | 66 / 60–71 | 66 / 63–71 | 66 / 62–71 | 66 / 62–71 | 66 / 62–71 | 65 / 61–70 | 66 / 55–70 | 65 / 53–71 |
Each figure is the median across the 204 grid cells holding the 221 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 1668:6106 (6.575, 125.325). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 22.1 °C, 1st-percentile night 23.2 °C, 99th-percentile day 31.4 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 204 distinct grid cells holding the 221 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1668:6106 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 6.50_125.625, lapse-corrected +68 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 182 m (cell mean).
Natural habitat
Photographs
Photographs: (c) 潘立傑 LICHIEH_PAN, some rights reserved (CC BY) (5); (c) Ong Jyh Seng, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA); (c) 五色鳥, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Malaika Mathew Chawla, some rights reserved (CC BY).
Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.
Papers naming this species
Works whose title or abstract names Syzygium samarangense, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.
Related
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