Casearia pitumba Sleumer

A shrub or tree. It grows 4-12 m tall. The flowers occur in small clusters. The fruit have thick stalks. The fruit is a capsule. It is 3 cm long by 2.5 cm wide. It is green and turns yellow then orange. The fruit usually has 3 ribs along it and 3 thick woody valves where it opens. There are about 20 seeds. These are angular and 1 cm long by 0.5 cm wide. They are a white slimy aril of layer around the seeds. This is sweet and edible.

Rainforests, especially along rivers, secondary forest, forested slopes on bauxite and savannah, growing in a range of soil types; at elevations up to 1,300 metres.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.