Medium-sized tree, reaching

Medium-sized tree, reaching a height of 30 m and 60 cm gemang. Pepagan (bark) gray brown, break or scaly.

Pulau TidungSingle leaf is facing, with stems up to 12 mm. Leaf blade elliptic-oblong, narrowly oblong or lanceolate, 5-16 x 2.5 to 7 cm, glabrous, with 6-11 secondary leaf veins and leaf veins downstream intramarginal evident near the edge of the strand, mottled very fine oil glands .
Wreath form with lots of flower panicles, 2-8 cm long, appear under the leaves or sometimes in the armpit. Flowers small, sit, smell nice, berbilangan-4; petals like the bowl, approximately 4 mm in length; off-off crown, white, 2.5-3.5 mm; stamens many, lk. 3 mm, collected in 4 groups, early fall; central disc is rather square, yellowish orange. Buni fruit rounded or slightly depressed, 12 mm, crowned pieces of petals, red to purple-black when ripe. In Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, and the Netherlands, the fresh leaves are sold in packs containing a dozen leaves. The buyer, most Indonesian people, but it leaves originated from Thailand. Because in this country, still leaves harvested from trees that grow wild in their fields.

Pulau PramukaSalam (Indonesian bay leaf, Indonesian laurel, Syzygium polyanthum), is an aromatic leaves for seasoning in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, to India. But in India itself, in addition to leaves, also known as leaf tej pat, tejpat, or tejpata (Indian bay leaf, Cinnamomum tejpata). Because the plant is a genus of cinnamon (Cinamumum zeylanicum, Cinamumum Burmani), tejpat leaf aroma, very different from the incoming bay leaves family Myrtaceae, genus Syzygium. Indian dishes are mostly using tejpat leaf seasoning.
In the Mediterranean, including in the Middle East region, which is used to mumbu leaves Bay Laurel (Sweet Bay, Grecian Laurel, Laurel, Bay Tree, Laurus nobilis), which is claimed as bay leaf "original" (True Laurel). While in the United States (U.S.), known as the California bay leaf (California laurel, Oregon myrtle, Pepperwood, Umbellularia californica). Aroma California bay leaf, bay leaf as strong as the original of the Mediterranean. How to use a bay leaf to cook, together with the use of bay leaves.
Bay leaf original, India, and California, both the family Lauraceae. Bay leaf native genus Laurus, consisting of three species: Laurus azorica (Azores Laurel), Laurus nobilis (Bay Laurel), and (Laurus novocanariensis). California bay leaf Umbellularia genus consists of three species, namely Umbellularia californica (California laurel), Umbellularia calWisata Pulau Pariifornica californica var, and Umbellularia fresnensis californica var. Indian bay leaf genus Cinnamomum, consisting of about 300 species. Until just different leaves, which is a genus Syzygium, which consists of 1,100 species.