Clove - Syzygium aromaticum

SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATION

Kingdom: Plantae 

 Phylum: Angiosperms 

 (unranked): Eudicots 

 (unranked): Rosids 

 Order: Myrtales

Family: Myrtaceae 

 Genus: Syzygium 

 Species: S. aromaticum

BIONOMIAL NAME

Syzygium aromanticum

SYNONYMS

                                                                                 Caryophyllus aromaticus L.

  Eugenia aromatica (L.) Baill.

Eugenia caryophyllus

  Eugenia caryophyllata Thumb. 

(Spreng.) Bullock & S. G. Harrison

    

The clove tree is an evergreen tree and native to the islands of 

Indonesia – the Maluku islands, Malaysia, 

the continent of India, the island of Madagascar, Zanzibar, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

They are aromatic dried flower buds from trees that grow to heights of 8-12 meters. 

Their leaves are large and bear reddish flowers that are clustered. 

They start of pale and when ripe the flowers turn red, ready for harvest.

The cloves are about 1.5 to 2.0 cm – they have a calyx, with four terminating sepals 

and four unbloomed petals that form a small ball in the center.