Canarium pimela K.D.Koenig

Trees, up to 20 m tall, ca. 45 cm d.b.h. Branchlets ca. 1 cm in diam., glabrous. Leaves exstipulate; leaflets 4-6 pairs; blades broadly elliptic, ovate, or rounded, 6-17 × 2-7.5 cm, glabrous, base cuneate, margin entire, apex acute; lateral veins 8-15 pairs, reticulate veins conspicuous. Flowers in cymose panicles or inflorescences rarely racemose, glabrous, with more flowers in male plants. Calyx ca. 2.5 mm, shallowly lobed in male flowers, 3.5-4 mm, shallowly lobed or nearly truncate in female flowers. Petals ca. 8 mm in female flowers. Filaments connate for about 1/2 of length; disk fleshy with center depressed in male flowers, thin and shallowly 6-lobed in female flowers; anthers with 2 lines of bristles. Infructescences 8-35 cm, 1-4-fruited; pedicel ca. 2 cm; persistent calyx nearly flat, 8-10 mm in diam. Drupe purple-black when ripe, narrowly ovoid, 3-4 × 1.7-2 cm, cross section nearly rounded. Fl. Apr-May, fr. May-Nov.

A tropical plant. It grows in dense forests. In Yunnan, China it grows between 600-1300 m altitude. They occur in northern Vietnam mostly below 500 m altitude. The tree needs plenty of light. It prefers a deep humid soil. It mostly grows on steep land.

The fruit are edible. Fruit are eaten fresh or crystallised. They are sometimes pickled. The stone is removed. The seed contains an edible oil.

Plants are grown from seeds.