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Common name: Guava (Jambu)Scientific name:Psidium guajava

Kingdom: PlantaeOrder: MyrtalesFamily: Myrtaceae

Genus: PsidiumSpecies: P.guajava


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A shrub or small tree, growing as high as 30ft, but

usually no more than 10-15ft, with wide-spreadingbranches and square, downy twigs. Guava is atropical and semitropical plant.

Trunk

Smooth, thin, copper-colored bark that flakes off,showing the greenish layer beneath. Young twigs arequadrangular and downy.

Description


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Leaves

The leaves, aromatic when crushed, are

evergreen, opposite, short-petioled, oval or oblong-elliptic, somewhat irregular in outline, leathery, withconspicuous parallel veins, and more or less downyon the underside.

Flower

Faintly fragrant, white flowers, borne singly or insmall clusters in the leaf axils, with 4 or 5 whitepetals which are quickly shed.


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Fruit and Seed

The fruit, exuding a strong, sweet, musky odorwhen ripe, may be round, ovoid, or pear-shaped, andthin, light-yellow skin, frequently blushed with pink.

The central pulp, concolorous or slightly darker intone, is juicy and normally filled with very hard,yellowish seeds, some rare types have soft,chewable seeds. When immature and until a veryshort time before ripening, the fruit is green, hard,gummy within and very astringent.


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Antibacterial activity

Consist of tannin in leaves and bark

Anti- diarrhea

Leaf can used in stomach complaints, dysentery

Anti-inflammatory effect

Essential oil extract from fruit have anti-inflammatory

Antispasmodic Decoction of shoots and young leaves

Conjunctivitis

Flowers are mashed and applied to area of painfule e

Medical uses


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Diabetes

Fruit is soaked and drink it

Food uses Fruit have vitamin C, contain antioxidant and free

radical

Malaria

Stem bark extract can treat malaria

Oral care

Twigs used for cleaning teeth while leaves used forcure bleeding gums, bad breath and hangoverchewing

Parturient

Decoction of leaves and bark


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Common name: Kedondong

Scientific name:Spondias Cytherea Sonnerat

Kingdom: Plantae

Order: Sapindales

Family: Anacardiaceae

Genus: Spondias

Species: S. dulcis


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Description

Spondias Dulcis is a tropical tree. This highly

ornamental tree is a rapid-grower reaching a heightof 12-18 m with upright growth. Deciduous in habit,its leaves turn bright yellow before falling in the coolseason.


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Trunk

It is a fast growing tree, growing 9-12m tall, with

both standard and dwarf forms.Leaves

Deciduous, pinnate leaves 20-60cm in length,composed of 9-25 glossy, elliptic/ obovate leaftes6.25-10cm long, finely toothed toward the apex.

Flowers

Small, inconspicuous white flowers are produced

in terminal panicles. They are borne in large buncheswith male, female within each cluster.


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Cluster flowersof kedondong

Seed

Fruit


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Fruit and seed

The oval fruits are 6-9cm long, and produced in

bunches of 12 or more. Over a period of severalweeks, the still hard and green fruits will fall to theground. They will turn golden yellow as they ripen.

This fruit has a pineapple-mango flavour and a

crunchy texture. The part nearer to the peel is quitesour getting sweeter near the seed. Flat seeds are ina tough prickly core.


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Food uses

High carbohydrates

Vitamin and minerals

Cure cancer

Parasites on tree suppress cancer cell

Cough and dysentry

Leaves and bark contain flavanoids, saponins andtannin is used to make decoction and drink

Traditional used

Dried fruit overcome indigestion, fever, liver

problems, anaemia, stress, hay fever, arthritis and

Medical uses

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