Common name: Guava (Jambu) Scientific name: Psidium guajava Kingdom: Plantae Order: Myrtales Family: Myrtaceae Genus:

Psidium Species: P.guajava

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Description
A shrub or small tree, growing as high as 30ft, but usually no more than 10-15ft, with wide-spreading branches and square, downy twigs. Guava is a tropical and semitropical plant.
Trunk

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

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Leaves

The leaves, aromatic when crushed, are evergreen, opposite, short-petioled, oval or oblongelliptic, somewhat irregular in outline, leathery, with conspicuous parallel veins, and more or less downy on the underside.
Flower

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

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Fruit and Seed

The fruit, exuding a strong, sweet, musky odor when ripe, may be round, ovoid, or pear-shaped, and thin, light-yellow skin, frequently blushed with pink. The central pulp, concolorous or slightly darker in tone, is juicy and normally filled with very hard, yellowish seeds, some rare types have soft, chewable seeds. When immature and until a very short time before ripening, the fruit is green, hard, gummy within and very astringent.

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Medical uses
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
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eye

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 for

cure bleeding gums, bad breath and hangover chewing

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 height of 12-18 m with upright growth. Deciduous in habit, its leaves turn bright yellow before falling in the cool season.

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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 leaftes 6.25-10cm long, finely toothed toward the apex.
Flowers

Small, inconspicuous white flowers are produced in terminal panicles. They are borne in large bunches with male, female within each cluster.

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Cluster flowers of kedondong

Fruit

Seed

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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 several weeks, the still hard and green fruits will fall to the ground. 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 quite sour getting sweeter near the seed. Flat seeds are in a tough prickly core.

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Medical uses
Food uses
High carbohydrates Vitamin and minerals

Cure cancer
Parasites on tree suppress cancer cell

Cough and dysentry

Leaves and bark contain flavanoids, saponins and

tannin is used to make decoction and drink

Traditional used
Dried fruit overcome indigestion, fever, liver
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