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Medium-sized, evergreen tree or shrub, 2.4-13.0 m high, usually with yellow juice, some-times with leafy branches modified into thorns. Leaves opposite, entire, glossy on bothsurfaces, coriaceous; venation usually prominent, often with translucent glandular canalsand brownish resin canals; petioles decurrent. Flowers terminal or axillary, solitary orin few-to many-flowered cymes, yellowish green, usually unisexual and plants dioecious.Male flowers: stamens many, free or connate in 4 or 5 fascicles (bundles), with eachfascicle forming a solid staminal column bearing free or partially fused filaments above.Female or bisexual flowers usually with 4(5) stamen fascicles or staminode fascicles.Flowering time Aug.-Feb. Fruit baccate, subglobose, orange when ripe, edible. Seeds1 or 2.
A medium sized tree. It grows to 13 m high but may grow higher in tropical places. The crown is glossy green. The branches and twigs have grooves. The sap is brownish yellow and sticky. The leaves are simple and opposite. They are leathery. They are 2.5-13 cm long by 1.3-6 cm wide. They are egg shaped. The tip is pointed. The edges of the leaves often roll inwards. The leaves are dark glossy green on top and paler underneath. The flowers are male and female on separate trees. They occur in bunches at the ends of branches. The flowers have 4 white petals and sepals which are green with brown marks. The fruit is a round berry 2.5 cm long. It is orange when ripe and edible.
Shrub or tree, up to 13 m high. Leaves opposite; petioles 8-18 mm long. Flowers terminal at ends of branches; staminal or staminodial fascicles present. Flowers white.
