Kelat Oil is strong and easy to plant. It likes high temperature and humidity and full sunlight, and is slightly drought-tolerant and shade-tolerant. It is pruning-resistant. Cuttings or high-pressure methods can be used for propagation, and spring and autumn are suitable periods.
Kelat Oil
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About Kelat Oil
| ◆ | Classification: Genus Syzygium; Family Myrtaceae | |
| ◆ | Scientific name: Syzygium myrtifolium (Roxb.) Walp. | |
| ◆ | Alias name: Kelat Paya, Red Lip | |
| ◆ | Chinese name:長紅木、紅楠木、鐘花蒲桃、錫蘭蒲桃、紅蕊木 | |
| ◆ | Origin: Malaysia | |
| ◆ | Growth environment: Likes high temperature and humidity, slightly drought tolerant; likes full sun, slightly shade tolerant | |
| ◆ | Growth habit: Evergreen tree | |
| ◆ | Height: 4-5 meters or higher | |
| ◆ | Stem: Bark of old stems with irregular fine cracks; branches slender, smooth and glabrous | |
| ◆ | Leaf | |
| 》 | Simple leaves, opposite; leathery; oblong or obovate; base acute or descending, apex acuminate or short caudate; entire margin | |
| 》 | Leaves up to about 6 cm long and 3 cm wide; with short petioles | |
| 》 | Upper surface green, lower surface lighter; new leaves are red at first, then gradually become orange-red, and then turn green | |
| 》 | Pinnate veins; lateral veins inconspicuous on both sides | |
| ◆ | Flower | |
| 》 | Bisexual flowers; paniculate cymes, with 2 to 3 forked branches, terminal | |
| 》 | Corolla white, often red in the inner center; short-stalked, about 0.2 to 0.4 cm long | |
| 》 | Calyx bell-shaped, about 0.2 to 0.3 cm in diameter, apex truncated, outside often red | |
| 》 | 4 petals, oval, white, falling early | |
| 》 | Stamens numerous, filaments white | |
| 》 | Pistil style slender, white or reddish, stigma capitate; ovary inferior, axillary placenta | |
| ◆ | Fruit: Berries, oblate spherical, about 0.8 to 1 cm in diameter, purple-black when ripe | |
| ◆ | Flowering and fruiting period: Late Spring to early summer | |
Kelat Oil is native to Malaysia.
Kelat Oil
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It is an evergreen tree with a height of 4 to 5 meters or more.
Kelat Oil
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The new leaves are red and can sprout several times a year, so the top of the trees are often red and it is called "長紅木" in Taiwan. "長紅" means "often red". They are often planted in gardens, parks, campuses, botanical gardens, etc. as horticultural landscape plants or as street trees.
Kelat Oil
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They are also often used to make fences, or planted on the central partition of main roads.
Kelat Oil
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The bark of the old trunk is irregularly fissured while the branches are slender, smooth and glabrous.
The trunk of Kelat Oil
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The leaves are simple and opposite.
The phyllotaxy of Kelat Oil
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Leaves leathery; oblong or obovate; base acute or decumbent, apex acuminate or short caudate; entire; leaves up to about 6 cm long and 3 cm wide; with short petioles.
The leaves of Kelat Oil
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The leaves are green on upper surface and lighter on lower surface. Leaf veins are pinnate, lateral veins inconspicuous on both sides.
The leaves of Kelat Oil (lower surface)
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The new leaves are initially red.
The new leaves of Kelat Oil
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Then gradually turn orange-red and finally green.
The leaves of Kelat Oil
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Flowers are bisexual.
The inflorescence of Kelat Oil
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The inflorescence is a panicle cyme, terminal.
The inflorescence of Kelat Oil
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Inflorescence with 2 to 3 forked divergence.
The inflorescence of Kelat Oil
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Flowers are short-stalked, about 0.2 to 0.4 cm long; calyx is bell-shaped, about 0.2 to 0.3 cm in diameter, the apex is truncated, and the outside is often red.
The flowers of Kelat Oil
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Corolla white, often red in the inner center.
The flowers of Kelat Oil
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Petals 4, oval, white, caducous.
The flowers of Kelat Oil
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Stamens numerous, filaments white.
The flowers of Kelat Oil
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The flowers of Kelat Oil
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Pistil style slender, white or reddish, stigma capitate; ovary inferior, axillary placenta.
The flowers of Kelat Oil
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It's fruit is a berry.
The fruit of Kelat Oil
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The berries are oblate, about 0.8 to 1 cm in diameter.
The fruit of Kelat Oil
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The berries are purple-black when ripe.
The fruit of Kelat Oil
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