Family: Myrtaceae

Description: 

Trees, to 6 m high, bark tawny-brown; branchlets first bluntly quadrangular, become terete. Leaves simple, opposite, elliptic-obovate, obovate or elliptic-oblong. Flowers bisexual, white, in terminal or subterminal axillary cymes, subsessile. Calyx tube 1.5-3 cm long, funnel shaped; lobes 5, 6 mm long, ovate. Petals 5, oblong, obtuse, concave. Stamens many, inflexed in bud, 1.5 cm long; filaments white; anthers white. Fruit a berry, turbinate, crowned by the fleshy calyx segments, white, pink or red, glossy; flesh juicy, watery.