Dialium ovoideum Thwaites

A tall tree. The bark is pale brown. The branches are slender and smooth. The leaves are small with leaflets along the stalk and one at the end. There are 2 pairs of leaflets. The are oval to sword shaped and are rounded at the base. They are dark shiny green. The flowers are very small and white. They are in pyramid shaped groups at the ends of branches. The fruit occur in bunches. The fruit is a pod 1-1.5 cm across. It is almost rounded and has a dense coating of brown hairs. There is one seed.

A tropical plant. It grows in evergreen forests and near rivers. In XTBG Yunnan.

The ripe fruit are eaten fresh.

Can be grown by seedlings.