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Main leaf-lamina usually 4–8 x 2–5 cm., ovate, ± elliptic, obovate or rarely subcircular, narrowed to an acute or obtuse apex (sometimes rounded or, rarely, retuse), cuneate to obtuse, symmetric or slightly asymmetric at the base, papery or often ± leathery, glabrescent to glabrous; superior surface ± glossy (orange-brown, yellowish-brown or light green when young; dark green or ± brownish with age); inferior surface mat (yellowish-green when young; green or yellowish with age); petiole 2–5(8) mm. long, glabrescent to glabrous.
An evergreen shrub or tree. It can grow 12 m high. The trunk is 50 cm across. The bark is usually smooth. It peels off in thin scales. Young parts have yellow-brown curly hairs. The leaves are simple, opposite, leathery and shiny above. The leaf blade is 4-8 cm long by 2-5 cm wide. They are oval. The flowers are bisexual and have 4-5 flower parts. The petals are white or yellow. The fruit are about 5 cm across and are red. They are edible.
Evergreen or semi-evergreen shrub or tree up to 12(15) m. high; trunk up to c. 50 cm. in diameter; bark smooth or scarcely rough, light brown or grey, sometimes scaling off in small, thin scales; young branchlets brown, yellowish-brown or grey, tomentulose to glabrous (hairs minute, leptodermatose, moderately twisted, reddish-brown to yellowish-brown or grey).
Spikes 3–13 cm. long, slender, tomentulose to puberulous (hairs leptodermatose, moderately twisted, dark brown with brownish-yellow contents), remotely flowered, ± drooping, in the axils of smaller (up to 3 cm. long) and usually deciduous leaves (false bracts) on the lower part of the branches.
Ovary 2 mm. long, campanulate, 4–5(7)-locular; styles 4–5(7), 1·5 mm. long, pyriform, thickened and partially covered with sharp, short, hyaline leptodermatose and yellow meso-dermatose hairs towards the base, narrowed, reflexed, glabrous and papillose above.
Petals 3 mm. long, ± 3-lobed (central lobe slender and undivided, lateral lobes broader and 2–3-laciniate), white or yellowish, glabrous, papillose.
Calyx-lobes 2 mm. long, triangular to deltate, green, tomentulose to glabrate outside and glabrous inside, their margins ciliolate.
Stamens with filaments 1·5 mm. long, subulate, incurved; anthers 0·5 mm. long, broadly ovoid.
Drupe 4 x 2·5 cm., ellipsoid, plum-coloured, edible, flavoured like a nectarine.
Flowers 4–5-merous, bisexual, glabrescent; bracts ± 1·5 mm. long, subterete.
