Dillenia pentagyna Roxb.

Deciduous tree, up to 25 m high, with usually rather crooked, up to 1
 high clear trunk, to 1 m diam. Bark smooth, grayish, peeling off in thin scales. Leaves elliptic-obovate, ca 25-50-nerved, 20-50 by 10-20 cm, with rounded to obtuse apex, acute base, decurrent along the petiole, and manifestly dentate to nearly entire margin. Petiole 1½-5 cm long, slightly winged with permanent, not amplexicaul wings. Leaves on saplings and young plants oblanceolate, up to 75-nerved, up to 120 by 40 cm, with up to 15 mm broad petiolar wings, not sharply separated from the blade, distinctly nerved like the blade. Flowers 2-7 in a fascicle on an up to 3 mm long, short shoot with hairy bracts, on branches of 6 mm and more diam.; flowering mainly when leafless. Flowers 2½-3 cm diam., on a 2½-6 cm long pedicel without bracteoles. Sepals 5, elliptic, 8-12 by 5-9 mm. Petals yellowish or whitish, 15-20 by 5-10 mm. Stamens in 2 distinct groups, the outer ones 60-90, 2½-4 mm long, straight in bud, the inner ones 10,6-9 mm long, with their apex reflexed in bud, opening with longitudinal slits. Carpels 5(-6), ca 3½-4 by 1.2-1.5 mm, with 4 mm long styles; each with 5-20 ovules. Fruit indehiscent, approximately globular, yellow, orange or red, 15 mm diam., 13 mm high including the enlarged, fleshy sepals, which are up to 16 by 14 mm, up to 3 mm thick at the base. Carpels ca 8 by 5 mm, 1(-2)-seeded. Seeds ovoid, 5 by 3½ mm, exarillate.

A tropical plant. In Nepal it grows up to 1200 m altitude. It grows in open places in the foothills. It grows in drier areas. In southern China it grows in rainforests below 400 m above sea level. In Sikkim it grows between 150-1,500 m above sea level. In Yunnan.

The ripe fruit are edible but not greatly appreciated. They are eaten with salt and chili. They are used for jam. They can be pickled. The flower buds and young fruit are eaten raw or pickled. They can be stored for 20 days. The flowers are fried.

Plants are grown from seed. They can also be grown by cuttings.