Diospyros hasseltii Zoll.

Shrubs or small trees, 2--4 m tall. Older branches grayish brown, asperous. Winter buds dark, glabrous. Petiole 0.8--1.2 cm; leaf blade ovate, 16--17 X 5.5--7 cm, leathery, both surfaces glabrous, base cuneate, apex shortly acuminate, lateral veins ca. 10 per side, adaxially raised. Flowers not seen. Infructescences flat-topped, usually 3-fruited, 1.5--3.5 cm (excluding fruit), densely dark pubescent. Fruiting pedicel 1--2 cm, apically slightly thickened. Fruiting calyx slightly dark pubescent; lobes 4, ovate-triangular, leaflike, ca. 1.2 X 1.2 cm. Berries globose, ca. 2.2 cm in diam., densely appressed blackish pubescent at base, glabrescent. Seeds dark brown, ca. 11 X 5 mm. Fr. May.

A tropical plant. They grow in forests on limestone hills. In Yunnan.

The seeds are sweet with a slightly sharp taste.

Can be grown by seedlings.