Tree to about 30 m tall in the wild, generally to 10 m in cultivation. Leaves lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, acuminate, 7-12 cm long, 2-4 cm wide, with 17-40 pairs of veins, mostly wavy-edged. Leaf stalk 2-7 mm long, reddish, flattened with a groove above. Fruit green at first, becoming pink or red,1.5-2 cm broad, globular or slightly flattened, with the remains of the calyx forming a hard tube 1-2 mm high on top; mostly Jan-Apr. Syn. Eugenia ventenatii Benth., Syzygium floribundum F. Muell.

Grows naturally along creeks and rivers of C and S Qld and N NSW.

Qld, NSW.

Leaves wavy-edged; calyx rim persistent, cylindrical, projecting; fruit hard, green becoming orange-red; in section the cotyledons form a wriggly (ruminate) seed with a dark centre.

VIC: Bendigo (RSL); Burnley (College grounds); Caulfield (Park, many); Fitzroy (Gds); Kew (Boroondara Cemetery); Korumburra (Primary School); Melbourne (Treasury Gds); Prahran (Victoria Gds); St Arnaud (Bot. Gds).

Source: Spencer, R. (2002). Myrtaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.