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A climbing shrub or creeper. It can be 20 m tall. The branches are dark brown. The small branches have brown hairs. The leaves are 4-12 cm long by 2-5 cm wide. There is a tip at the end and they are wedge shaped at the base. The flowering shoots are 9-32 cm long with 5-9 stalks each with about 30 flowers in a cluster at the ends. The flower buds are pink and the flowers are white. The fruit is4 cm across and yellow. The pulp is edible.
Corolla tube 9–10·5 mm. long, slender, slightly inflated in the lower half, outer surface pubescent, inner surface glabrous except for sparse pubescence above the anthers; corolla lobes 1–1·5 times as long as tube, narrowly elliptic, with acute apex; both surfaces glabrous, margins ciliate with crispate white hairs.
Leaves coriaceous, drying grey-green to dark brown, paler below; petiole 2–9 mm. long, with indumentum like the stem; lamina 4–8 x 1·7–3 cm., oblong-elliptic, apex with short acute acumen often deflexed (so that the leaf cannot be pressed flat without folding), base rounded-cuspidate.
Inflorescences elongate panicles, each lateral branch ending in a dense cymose flower-cluster, axes densely rufous-puberulous.
Calyx 2–3 mm. long, the lobes narrowly triangular, united at the base, dorsally densely ferrugineous appressed-pubescent.
Stamens inserted 1·5–2·5 mm. from base of corolla tube; anthers subsessile, 0·75–1·25 mm. long.
Fruit c. 4 cm. in diameter, yellow, with edible pulp.
Flower buds pink, flowers white, sweet-scented.
Young stems puberulent, tardily glabrescent.
Ovary c. 0·75 mm. long, globose, pubescent.
Style, clavuncle and stigma 1–1·5 mm. long.
Liane.
