Syzygium cumini big fruit

Big-fruited jamun

• Also called Big jamun, Ram jamun, Large-fruited jamun
• Tamil Naval (நாவல்)
• Hindi Jamun (जामुन), large types sold as Ram jamun or Ra jamun
• Telugu Neredu (నేరేడు)

Evergreen tree, up to 30 m

What it is

This is the same jamun tree as the common type, grown from a line that bears larger, fleshier fruit. The fruits are oblong and ripen deep purple to bluish-black, with more pulp around the seed. Jamun seed often grows true to its parent, because one seed can hold several embryos that copy the mother tree, so large-fruited lines can be kept going from seed. The species is native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.

What it's used for

• The bigger, juicier fruit is good for eating fresh and for juice, jam and squash.
• Like all jamun, its flowers feed bees and its fruit feeds birds and bats.
• The tree gives the same deep shade and water-resistant wood as the common type.

Where we plant it

Our partners plant the mix of native species that suits each site and season, so a gift plants trees in the project rather than this one species. Syzygium cumini big fruit is one of the species planted there.

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