Landolphia buchananii Stapf

Liana 3–40 m high, rarely sarmentose shrub 0.9–7 m high with copious white latex; stems deeply fluted, to 22 cm in diameter, dark brown; branchlets glabrous or pilose.. Leaves petiolate, blade elliptic to ovate or obovate, 1.9–14.5 cm long, 0.8–6 cm wide, obtuse to bluntly acuminate at the apex with acumen up to 1 cm long, rounded to cuneate at the base, sometimes slightly ciliate, glabrous above, lower surface completely glabrous or pubescent at the base of midrib and lower secondary veins; petiole 1.5–8 mm long, glabrous or pilose, with 4–8 triangular glands on each node, often with empty bracts in between nodes.. Inflorescence terminal, sometimes also axillary, 1.6–5.5 cm long, 2–20-flowered; peduncle 5–33 mm long, sometimes tendril-like, elongate and curved; bracts ovate to triangular, 1–2.5 cm long; pedicels 1.2–6.5 mm long.. Flowers fragrant; sepals ovate, 1.2–3.1 mm long, rounded at the apex; corolla white, creamy or yellow; tube often greenish, occasionally tinged pink or reddish, 6–12 mm long; lobes narrowly ovate to elliptic, 5.3–15.5 mm long, 1.9–4 mm wide, glabrous, rounded; stamens inserted 1.8–3.6 mm from the base of the tube, included for 1.3–5.9 mm; ovary ovoid, glabrous or with a few hairs.. Fruits green with white or light brown verrucose spots, 1–50 mm in diameter, globose or pyriform, 2.5–6 cm long, 2–20-seeded; pericarp 5–6.5 mm thick; pulp fleshy, white, turning yellow when exposed; seed up to 17 mm long, irregularly ovoid, laterally compressed, minutely pitted.

Rainforest, fruiting more on the forest edges; also in hillside thickets and bushland, on sloping rocky areas, in riverine forest, at medium elevations up to 1,600 metres.

The ripe fruit are eaten. The pulp has a sour sweet taste. The fruit has been used to make jam.

Plants are grown from seeds. Seeds that have passed through the gut of an animal normally germinate easily. Plants can be grown by cuttings.