Eugenia uniflora
Location collected: Nett
Date collected: November 21, 1999
Collected by: Graham Henry
- Genus Species: ?
- Family: ?
- Chuukese name: ?
- English name: Wild Cherry
- Kosraen name:
- Pohnpeian name: terri
- Yapese name: ?
- Growth form: Shrub
- Growth location: Terrestrial
- Growth environment: Cultivated area
- Growth zone: Tropical
- Average height: 18 cm
- Stem: Woody
- Leaf arrangement: Simple, opposite
- Stipule: absent
- Petioles: ~0.4 to 0.8 cm
- Leaf blade: ovate in shape, 3 to 9 cm long, margins is entire, apice is acute, color is
green, pinnate venation.
- Inflorescence: none
- Floral bracts: none
- Flower: White in color,
- Calyx: Green
- Corolla: White corolla with 4 to 5 lobes.
- Stamens: ~12 yellow stamens, facing upward
- Ovary: It is located inside the flower
- Pistil: 1 pistil which stands out from the stamens; larger in size
- Fruit: Turns red when its ripe; green during early stages of growth.
- Seed: Contains only one seed which is inside the fruit.
- Anything else: This plant was brought to Pohnpei by either the Japanese or Americans
during the war.
- Cultural usage: None
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