Funtumia elastica (P.Preuss) Stapf

Tree up to 35 m high; white latex coagulating easily; trunk up to 50 cm in diameter; branchlets glabrous.. Leaves petiolate; blade 6–27 cm long, 1.5–10 cm wide, base rounded or cuneate, apex acuminate, glabrous except for a few hairs beneath on midrib; domatia often present, consisting of pits with a ciliate margin; petiole 2–15 mm long, glabrous.. Inflorescence 2.2 cm long, 3–35-flowered; pedicel 2–8 mm long, glabrous.. Flowers with sepals elliptic to broadly ovate, 3–5 mm long; corolla tube very pale green to white, 5.5–10.5 mm long, 3–5.5 mm wide, glabrous outside; lobes white, triangular to ovate, distinctly auriculate, 3–7 mm long, 2–4 mm wide, glabrous on both sides; disk with truncate lobes; pistil 4–6 mm long; ovary glabrous; style 1.5–3 mm long, glabrous.. Fruit almost clavate, 8–19 cm long, 2–4 cm in diameter, subacute or acute at the apex; seeds 4.5–7 cm long, 0.3–0.4 cm wide; coma 3–5 cm long, glabrous basal portion 0.5–1.3 mm long, hairs 4.5–7 cm long.

A tropical plant. It grows in deciduous forest. It grows in drier regions and secondary forests. In Nigeria it has been recorded at 750 m above sea level. In Yunnan.

The ground bark is sold as a dietary supplement.

Plants can be grown from seed.