Description

• The evergreen jamun plant is originally from Indonesia and India.
• An evergreen tropical tree, 50 to 100 ft. tall, with oblong opposite leaves that are smooth, glossy and having a terpentine smell.
• Jamun has fragrant white flowers in branched clusters at stem tips and purplish-black oval edible berries.

Uses   

• The leaves are antibacterial and are used for strengthening the teeth and gums.
• The fruit and seeds are sweet, acrid, sour, tonic, and cooling, and are used in diabetes, diarrhoea and ringworm.
• The bark is astringent, sweet sour, diuretic, digestive and anthelmintic.