Malay Apple Botanical Art

Malay Apple
Syzygium malaccense

Malay Apple Botanical Art

Ōhi'a 'ai

Fig. 1

'Ohi'a 'ai, oil on academy board attributed to Margarete Garvin Gillin, c. 1880, Bishop Museum

Malay Apple 'Eugenia Malaccensis' L.(Myrtaceae). Malay Apple or Rose Apple,

Malay Apple 'Eugenia Malaccensis' L.(Myrtaceae). Malay Apple or Rose Apple,

Fig. 2

Malay Apple 'Eugenia Malaccensis' L. (Myrtaceae). Malay Apple or Rose Apple.
Album of 40 drawings of plants made by Chinese artists at Bencoolen, Sumatra, for Sir Stamford Raffles

Indigenous Flowers of the Hawaiian Islands by Mrs. Frances Sinclair, Plate 41 (Syzygium malaccense)

Fig. 3

The Ohia AI, Eugenia malaccensis, Linn
Indigenous Flowers of the Hawaiian Islands by Mrs. Frances Sinclair

Syzygium malaccense (L.) Merr. & L.M.Perry [as Jambosa malaccensis (L.) DC.]

Syzygium malaccense (L.) Merr. & L.M.Perry [as Jambosa malaccensis (L.) DC.]

Fig. 4

S. malaccense (L.) Merr. & L.M.Perry [as Jambosa malaccensis (L.) DC.]

Syzygium malaccense (L.) Merr. & L.M.Perry [as Jambosa malaccensis (L.) DC.]

Fig. 5

S. malaccense (L.) Merr. & L.M.Perry [as Jambosa malaccensis (L.) DC.]
Illustrations of Indian botany, or figures illustrative of each of the natural orders of Indian plants

Syzygium malaccense (L.) Merr. & L.M.Perry [as Eugenia malaccensis L.] Malay apple

Syzygium malaccense (L.) Merr. & L.M.Perry [as Eugenia malaccensis L.] Malay apple

Fig. 6

S. malaccense (L.) Merr. & L.M.Perry [as Eugenia malaccensis L.] Malay apple
Atlas der Baumarten von Java

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Fig. ¹Garvin Gillin, Margarete. "Ōhi'a 'ai." Bishop Museum, c. 1880, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ File:'Ohi'a_'ai,_oil_on_academy_board_attributed_to_Margarete_Garvin_Gillin,_c._1880,_Bishop_Museum.jpg. Accessed 20 Apr. 2019.
Fig. ² British Library. "Malay Apple 'Eugenia Malaccensis' L. (Myrtaceae). Malay Apple or Rose Apple." Album of 40 drawings of plants made by Chinese artists at Bencoolen, Sumatra, for Sir Stamford Raffles, Accession no. NHD 48/26, Watercolour, c. 1824, Wikimedia Commons, (CC0 1.0), commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Malay_Apple_-_40_drawings_of_plants_at_Bencoolen,_Sumatra_(c.1824)_-_BL_NHD_48-26.jpg. Accessed 21 Feb. 2019.
Fig. ³ Sinclair, Francis. "The Ohia AI, Eugenia malaccensis, Linn." Indigenous flowers of the Hawaiian islands, ID CAT11021591, Plate 41, 1885, Archive, Public Domain, archive.org/details/CAT11021591/page/n181. Accessed 21 Feb. 2019.
Fig. ⁴ Fitch, W. H. "Syzygium malaccense (L.) Merr. & L.M.Perry [as Jambosa malaccensis (L.) DC.]." Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, t. 4345-4416, vol. 74 [ser. 3, vol. 4]: t. 4408, 1848, Plant Illustrations, plantillustrations.org/illustration.php?id_illustration=1270. Accessed 22 Feb. 2019.
Fig. ⁵Rungia. "Syzygium malaccense (L.) Merr. & L.M.Perry [as Jambosa malaccensis (L.) DC.]." Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, R. Wight, Illustrations of Indian botany, or figures illustrative of each of the natural orders of Indian plants, vol. 2: t. 98, 1850, Plant Illustrations, plantillustrations.org/illustration.php?id_illustration=44978. Accessed 22 Feb. 2019.
Fig. ⁶Mangoendimedjo, M. "Syzygium malaccense (L.) Merr. & L.M.Perry [as Eugenia malaccensis L.] Malay apple." Harvard University Botany Libraries Cambridge, S. H. Koorders, T. Valeton, Atlas der Baumarten von Java, vol. 3: t. 445, 1915, Plant Illustrations, plantillustrations.org/illustration.php?id_illustration=143892. Accessed 22 Feb. 2019.

Published 20 Apr. 2019 LR