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Tree 7, photograph 1 of 3TREE 07

Photographs by Farish

Sea apple

Syzygium grande

Several upright limbs rise from a pale, mottled trunk beside the shelter. Broad leaves give the crown a denser texture.

Kelat payaBest match for visible features

Observations

Several upright limbs rise from a pale, mottled trunk beside the shelter. Broad leaves give the crown a denser texture.

About this identification

The trunk carries the pale, patchy, python-like mottled bark that is the sea apple's signature, and the crown holds broad, glossy, drooping leaves with occasional orange senescing ones. No two-lobed leaves were found, ruling out the earlier orchid-tree guess. Cream pom-pom flowers or ribbed fruits would confirm it.

Identified from photographs of bark, leaves, fallen litter and epiphytes against the Malaysian campus-tree flora. Moderate and tentative records would be settled by a close-up of flowers or fruit.

Species reference: Syzygium grande