Tree up to 32 m high and 75 cm ø. Bark grey, green, light brown to purple brown, or red, fissured. Terminal (vegetative) buds lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 5-10 by 1½-2½ mm, scales of the outer pair the longest. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, lanceolate, or obovate to oblanceolate, 2-15 by 1-5 cm (on sterile specimens up to 22½ by 5½ cm), glabrous; base acute to cuneate, or obtuse; apex acuminate, rarely obtuse; nerves 8—14(—26) pairs, veins hardly visible, sometimes faint, reticulate; petiole ½-l cm. Panicles 2½-6 cm long; pedicels 0-2 mm. Flowers white, pale yellow to yellow. Calyx lobes broadly ovate, ½-⅔ mm long. Petals oblong or obovate-oblong, slightly variable in size, 1½-2l/4 by ¾-l mm. Stamens ⅔-l mm; anthers apiculate. Disk small, thin, c. ⅔ mm ø. Ovary c. ½ mm ø. Drupe (fresh) broadly ellipsoid, c. 2½ by 1½ cm, yellow, orange, or red when ripe.
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A small tree. It grows 8-10 m tall. It can grow 20-40 m high and have a trunk 30 cm across. The bark is dark grey and can have shallow cracks. The leaves are opposite. They are simple, sword shaped and rough. The flowers are in a loose flower arrangement. The flowers have 3-5 petals. The fruit has one seed inside a violet stone. The flowers and fruit are at the ends of twigs. The ripe fruit are orange yellow. It is like a small mango. They are 2.5 cm long. The flesh is yellow.
In lowland forest up to 600 m. Fl. Jan.-Nov.; fr. March-Nov. CORNER Ways. Trees 1940 101 noted that trees of this species give, probably, the densest shade of any tree in Malaya. Growth is slow, and it is excellent for parks. Many of the young violet leaves habitually fall off, when only half-grown.
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A tropical plant. It grows in lowland tropical rainforests up to 600 m above sea level. It grows in monsoonal climates. In Yunnan.
Lowland forests up to elevations of 700 metres.
Uses. Fruits are edible and are sometimes made into preserve when in a half ripe state (cf. ALVINS '720).According to HEYNE Nutt. Pl. 1927 973 the timber is heavy, hard and durable and very useful for various purposes.
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The young fruit can be eaten raw or sweetened. These are also used in cooking. Some are pickled. Ripe fruit are sweet. Half ripe fruit are made into preserves.
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