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indian bay leaf
Syzygium polyanthum
Syzygium polyanthum, with common names Indian bay leaf and Indonesian bay leaf, is a species of plant in the Myrtaceae family, native to Indochina and Malesia. The leaves of the plant are traditionally used as a food flavouring, and have been shown to kill the spores of Bacillus cereus.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 199425.