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Eugenia mooniana
Also called Stopper, Stoppers
Eugenia mooniana, called stopper or eugenias, is a tropical evergreen tree of the Myrtle family native to the Western Ghats of India and Sri Lanka, reaching about 8 m tall. It is grown mainly as an ornamental or shade tree in warm, seasonally dry areas, and is not a common houseplant.
Eugenia mooniana, is a species of plant in the family Myrtaceae which is native to Western Ghats of India and Sri Lanka.
It is an 8 m (26 ft) tall tree with terete branchlets. Leaves are simple, opposite; lamina elliptic to narrow elliptic; apex caudate-acuminate with blunt tip; base acute to rounded with entire margin. Flowers are white colored. Fruit is a globose, glabrous, single-seeded berry. Flowering starts from October and ends in December. The plant is known as pinibaru by Sinhalese people in Sri Lanka.
Eugenia abbreviata · Eugenia aboukirensis · Eugenia aceitillo · Eugenia acrisepala · Eugenia acunae · Eugenia acutissima · Eugenia albida · Eugenia amoena · Eugenia amplifolia · Very Fine Leafed Cherry · Eugenia arianae · White stopper
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eugenia mooniana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
