First Week of February
Day 33 in 2021
I had a pleasant surprise when I looked at our Otaheite apple tree this morning, it was flowering for the first time.
1) The flowers are actually an inflorescence of short, few-flowered cymes that is borne on the trunk or older branches of the tree.
2) The abundant flowers are mildly fragrant and borne on the upper trunk and along leafless portions of mature branches in short-stalked clusters of 2 to 8.
3) The calyces are turbinate (i.e. shaped like an inverted cone), notched to form four rounded lobes.
4) The corolla has four red, purplish-red, or rose-purple suborbicular petals.
5) The stamens are red, free and many (approx. 200).
The stamens are long tipped with yellow anthers
and early caducous (ie. shed or drop off at an early stage of development).
6)The flowers are showy . . .
and usually hidden by the foliage until they fall and form a lovely carpet on the ground.
7) I read that In Indonesia, these flowers are eaten in salads.
8) I also read that we should expect apples in 60 days from the full opening of the flowers and that our tree should flower at least twice a year.
The Jamaican Otaheite Apple (Syzygium malaccense) is also known as Malay Apple, or Mountain-Apple.
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Main Sources:
https://raskisimani.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/syzygium-malay-apple.pdf
https://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/malay_apple.html#Food%20Uses
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Suz and Tell 
We planted the tree in 2016, five years ago.
Thank you for this. I was thinking that the blossoms were baby apples because of the shape. I’m excited I had planted a seed over 6 yrs now an was surprised to see a few bunches of what I now know is blossoms. Not opened yet. Unfortunately I had removed some of the lower branches which would be the now more mature.