4854. PHOTOGRAPHY of Memecylon caeruleum. USE TV mode and tripod.

PHOTOGRAPHY of Memecylon caeruleum.  USE TV mode and tripod. 

Memecylon caeruleum is a shrub or tree species in the Melastomataceae family.

Memecylon caeruleum is a shrub in the Melastomataceae family. Flower petals are white to yellowish green, with blue stamens. Immature egg-shaped fruits are pink, purple to black when mature.

Memecylon  caeruleum, Singapore.  Canon R5, TV, 1/2000 sec, f/4.5, ISO 400.  20 Jun 2023, 9.28 am

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The Memecylon caeruleum Jack (1820) is a shrub or small evergreen tree, 3-8 m tall, with cylindrical trunk and smooth and brown bark in the young branches, wrinkled and greyish in the older ones. The leaves, on a 3-6 mm long petiole, are opposite, simple, oblong-elliptic with acute, obtuse or retuse apex and entire margin, 8-16 cm long and 3-6 cm broad, coriaceous, of dark green color and shiny above.

Inflorescences, on a 0,5-1 cm long peduncle, axillar, compact, of 1,5-3 cm of diameter, carrying numerous tiny flowers with cupped hypanthium, 3-4 mm long, 4 sepals, 4 ovate petals, long 2-3 mm, red externally, deep blue internally, and 8 stamens, about 2,5 mm long, blue. Obovoid fruits, about 1,5 cm long and of 1 cm of diameter, initially of a pink to red colour, then blackish purple or black when ripe, edible, usually containing only one seed immersed in a juicy purple pulp.

 Attractive species due to the foliage and the tiny intensely colored flowers produced for most of the year, utilizable as isolated specimen, for hedges and borders, as it tolerates pruning well, and in street trees in parks and gardens of tropical and subtropical climate regions .

It requires full sun or a slight shade and fertile soils, well drained, kept almost constantly humid; it tolerates moderately brackish soils and marine aerosols, and can therefore be cultivated near the sea.

 The fruits are locally eaten raw or roasted even if rather bland. The wood, which has good characteristics of resistance, hardness and density, is used in the construction of houses, for furniture, poles, sticks, tools and handicraft articles, it is also excellent as firewood, due to its high calorific value, and for the production of charcoal. No particular uses are known in the context of popular medicine, except in some populations of Malaysia where the roots are utilized in postpartum cures.

 Obovoid fruits, about 1,5 cm long and 1 cm of diameter, initially pinkish, then blackish purple and black when ripe, are edible but of little value