Syzygium grande(Wight) Walp.

sea apple

WFO wfo-0000318710 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Syzygium grande, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. a Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2020-01-13 / obs. 59553530
Syzygium grande, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. b Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 26427054
Syzygium grande, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. c Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 59553532
Syzygium grande, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. d Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 59553536
Syzygium grande, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. e Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 59553538

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Syzygium grande is native: China South-Central, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam China South-CentralAssamBangladeshBorneoCambodiaLaosMalayaMyanmarSumateraThailandVietnam Andaman Is.
Native distribution of Syzygium grande, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Andaman Is. AND ASIA-TROPICAL
Assam ASS
Bangladesh BAN
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
Laos LAO
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 13 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Eugenia cymosa Roxb.
  • Eugenia grandis Wight
  • Eugenia laosensis Gagnep.
  • Eugenia laosensis var. quocensis Gagnep.
  • Jambosa firma Blume
  • Jambosa grandis (Wight) Blume
  • Syzygium endertii Merr. & L.M.Perry
  • Syzygium firmum (Blume) Thwaites
  • Syzygium grande var. parviflorum Chantar. & J.Parn.
  • Syzygium laosense (Gagnep.) Merr. & L.M.Perry
  • Syzygium laosense var. quocense (Gagnep.) H.T.Chang & R.H.Miao
  • Syzygium megalophyllum Merr. & L.M.Perry
  • Syzygium montanum Thwaites

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.