Home
A medium sized tree. It grows 3-20 m high. The stem is whitish grey. The bark is cracked into small squares and sometimes flakes off. The leaves are dark shiny green. The leaves are oval and the base of the leaf is unequal. Leaves are 9 cm long by 1.3 cm wide. The flowers are small and green to yellow. They occur in clusters in the axils of the leaves. Male and female flowers are on different trees. The fruit is round and 1.3 cm long. The fruit is smooth.
Male flowers: pedicels c. 4 mm long, minutely puberulous; sepals 4(5), somewhat unequal, 2.5–3 × 1–2 mm, usually ± ovate, rounded at the apex, fulvous-or ferrugineous-tomentellous at the apex without, glabrous within, pale lime-green; stamens 6–10, enclosed by the disk folds, 2.5–3 mm long, anthers 1.2 mm long; disk 2.5 mm across, more or less acetabuliform, plicate, with as many marginal folds as stamens, smooth, with no central projection, glabrous.
Female flowers: pedicels c. 5 mm long, stouter than in the male, extending to up to 3.5 cm long in fruit; sepals resembling those of the male flowers, but slightly larger, green; disk 3.5–4 mm in diameter, annular, subentire; ovary c. 2 mm in diameter, 2-locular, ovoid-subglobose, glabrous, dark green; styles 2, united at the base, erect, persistent, 1.5 mm long, bifid, stigmas spreading, papillose.
Fruit 1.3–1.5(2) × 0.75–1(1.5) cm, ellipsoid, shallowly 2-lobed and 2-celled, or not lobed and 1-celled by abortion, smooth, glabrous, green at first later becoming yellow to yellow-orange and somewhat fleshy.
Tree, up to 20 m high. Leaf margin entire, apex usually rounded to broadly tapering, very seldom attenuate and then shortly and rather obscurely so. Fruit narrowly ovoid. Flowers yellow.
Flowers borne in the axils of the scars of the previous season's fallen leaves, below the terminal flush; male fascicles many-flowered; female flowers solitary or paired, rarely ternate.
A deciduous shrub or tree up to 20 m high, sometimes more or less evergreen; branching at 3–5 m to form a dense broadly conical crown up to 10 m in diameter.
Seeds 0.8–1.4 × 0.6–1 × 0.3–0.7 cm, somewhat compressed-ellipsoid; sarcotesta drying pale brownish or yellowish-brown.
Buds perulate (furnished with protective scales); perulae c. 3 mm long, suborbicular, smooth, ciliate, soon falling.
Stipules c. 1 mm long, lanceolate, acute, more or less glabrous without, puberulous within, soon falling.
Bark smooth and silver-grey at first, later darkening and cracking and flaking rectangularly at the base.
Young shoots and petioles sparing to densely minutely puberulous.
Petioles 3–8 mm long.
Twigs lenticellate.
