Chrysophyllum albidum G.Don

Tall tree, height up to 45 m., with long straight ± fluted bole and buttressed base.. Young shoots, buds and petioles with greyish to tawny-brown indumentum of minute closely appressed hairs.. Petioles 1.2–3 cm. in length.. Leaf-lamina oblong-elliptic to oblanceolate-elliptic, (8-) 12–25(–35) cm. long, 3–9(–10.5) cm. wide, acuminate or sometimes obtuse, narrowly to broadly cuneate; upper surface glabrous, lower surface with soft silky tawny or golden-brown indumentum of minute appressed hairs, later becoming greyish or silvery-grey; midrib and lateral nerves prominently raised, primary lateral nerves (7-)9–14(–16) on each side, arcuate, ascending.. Flowers fascicled in current leaf axils or on warty projections on older branchlets.. Pedicels 1.5–4 mm. long; both pedicels and calyx with brown pubescence.. Sepals broadly ovate to suborbicular, up to 3.5 mm. long, 3 mm. wide.. Corolla cream; tube up to 3 mm. long; lobes rounded, up to 2 mm. long, ciliate.. Filaments up to 2 mm. long; small subulate staminodes sometimes present.. Ovary up to 2 mm. long, pilose; style up to 2 mm. long.. Fruit edible, very shortly and stoutly stalked, yellow to orange when mature, depressed globose, up to 5 cm. in diameter, glabrescent.. Seeds shiny brown, ± ellipsoid but straight along one margin, laterally compressed, up to 2.5 cm. long and 1.4 cm. wide.

A tropical plant. It grows in tropical Africa. It grows in lowland rainforest. It suits humid locations. In Nigeria it grows to 1,800 m above sea level.

The ripe fruit are eaten raw. They are also used for jam and jellies. They are also used for drinks.

Plants can be grown from seed. The fruit are collected from the ground after falling and squashed and the pulp removed to get the seeds. Seeds can be stored in a cool dry place. Young plants need shade. Plants can be budded.