Diospyros verrucosa Hiern

Shrub or small tree (1-)2-18 m. tall; bark dark grey or black, closely and deeply fissured longitudinally; young branchlets, tomentellous or densely ferruginous pubescent.. Leaves drying blackish brown above, distinctly paler, usually whitish beneath, ovate or ovate-oblong to lanceolate, 2.5-12.5 cm. long, 1.2-5.5(-7) cm. wide, subacute to shortly acuminate at the apex, rounded at the base, subcoriaceous, sometimes obscurely crenulate, ± shiny and slightly pubescent above particularly on the midrib, soon glabrous, lower surface adpressed sericeous-pilose, somewhat glabrescent except on nerves and epidermis glaucous due to dense minute papilla-like hairs; lateral nerves 5-7 pairs, prominent beneath but tertiary nerves and veins usually indistinct; petiole 3-7 mm. long.. Male flowers in 3-7-flowered cymules, borne towards the base of the current year’ s growth in the axils of deciduous reduced leaves or the first-formed foliage leaves; peduncle 1-2 mm. long; pedicels 1-2 mm. long; calyx 2.5 mm. long; calyx-lobes 4, triangular, 1.5 mm. long; corolla white or yellowish white, ellipsoid or ovoid-ellipsoid in bud, 6 mm. long; corolla-lobes 4, 1 mm. long; stamens ± 12, inserted on the receptacle, included; anthers linear-lanceolate, apiculate, strigose; rudimentary ovary minute, tomentose.. Female flowers usually solitary, rarely in 2-3-flowered cymules, in the axils of leaves or of bracts below the leaves; peduncle together with pedicel 0.3-1.2 cm. long; calyx 3-4 mm. long; calyx-lobes 4, broadly triangular, 2 mm. long; corolla urceolate, 7 mm. long, 3 mm. wide; corolla-lobes 4, under 1 mm. long; ovary 4 mm. long, 2.4 mm. wide; locules 4, uniovulate; style scarcely differentiated from the ovary, under 1 mm. long, bifid at the apex, the branches ending in 2 fleshy irregularly lobed stigmas.. Fruit cream at first, orange then blackish, subglobose or broadly ellipsoid, 3-4.5 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide, verrucose, densely rusty hairy at first, glabrescent, the calyx sometimes with reflected lobes.. Seeds 4 or fewer, blackish, oblong-trigonous, 1.8-2 cm. long, 0.8-1.2 cm. wide, 5 mm. thick; endosperm ruminate.. Fig. 3/24.

It is a tropical plant. It grows in coastal scrub and evergreen forest.