Diospyros dichrophylla (Gand.) De Winter

Shrubs 0.6-3.5 m high or trees up to 13 m, densely leafy; bark greyish to brown, more or less smooth or wrinkled; branches straight and erect, less often ascending, young twigs and leaves shortly but densely yellowish-to pallid-pubescent, glabrescent. Leaves alternate, petioles 3-6 mm long, pubescent; leaf-blade mostly narrowly obovate but varying from oblanceolate to obovate, cuneate at the base, apex rounded to broadly acute, 1.5-6 cm long and 0.6-1.5 cm broad, coriaceous, mature leaves glabrous or sparsely appressed-pubescent and finely wrinkled above, sparsely appressed-hairy below, especially on the midrib, midrib slightly impressed above, prominent below, secondary nerves inconspicuous above, inconspicuous or finely traced below but not raised, margins usually distinctly but finely revolute, very occasionally almost flat. Flowers dioecious, female or functionally male, solitary, axillary, pendulous with lobes reflexed, cream to white; peduncle up to 2.5 cm long, usually 1-1.5 cm long; bracts linear, margins revolute, rather distant, 5 mm long. Calyx deeply 5-lobed, 1/4 the length of the corolla, lobes deltoid to triangular, shortly but densely pallid-pubescent on both sides, 2-5 mm long. Corolla tube 1/3-1/4 the length of the lobes, glabrous; lobes narrowly oblong to more or less ovate, apex rounded or very broadly acute, pubescent on the outside and often with a few stiff hairs in a longitudinal median line down the back, 5-8 mm long and 2-4 mm wide, glabrous inside. Stamens usually 10, 3.5-4 mm long; anthers linear-lanceolate, bristly, especially on the connectives and at the base; filaments short, broad, hairy at the apex; female flowers with staminodes, staminodes 10(or fewer), 2 mm long, densely bristly. Ovary subglobose or somewhat depressed from above, very densely velvety-pubescent, 8-10-celled with a single ovule in each cell, rather abruptly narrowed into the style, often somewhat ribbed; style short, pubescent, branches 4-5, glabrous above; stigma often somewhat dilated. Fruits large, depressed-globose, up to 2 cm long and 2.5 cm in diameter, densely velvety-pubescent, often dehiscing from above into five valves; calyx usually strongly accrescent (occasionally only weakly so), usually reflexed but occasionally clasping the fruits or partly reflexed, lobes lanceolate to ovate, acute, up to 2.5 cm long and 1 cm broad (occasionally much shorter and narrower). Seeds (probably not ripe) laterally compressed, oblong, about 1.0 cm long, dark brown, shiny.

It is a subtropical plant. Brisbane Botanical Gardens.

Caution: Some claim the fruit is poisonous.