Liana 5–30 m high; trunk up to 30 cm in diameter; branchlets tomentose or glabrous.. Leaves petiolate, blade obovate or elliptic, 6–26 cm long, 2.8–10.3 cm wide, obtuse to obtusely acuminate at the apex, acumen up to 1 cm long, rounded to acute at the base, glabrous; petiole 4–17 mm long, glabrous, sometimes with glands in the axil.. Inflorescence predominantly axillary, sometimes also terminal, 2.5–6.5 mm long, 3–45-flowered; peduncle 3–15 mm long, glabrous to tomentose; pedicels 2–8 mm long, glabrous to tomentose.. Flowers fragrant; sepals ovate, 1.4–3 mm long, rounded to obtuse at the apex; corolla white, creamy or yellow, often differently coloured on tube; tube 8–14 mm long; lobes 6.5–17.4 mm long, 2.5–4.3 mm wide, rounded at the apex; ovary glabrous to tomentose, ovules 50–180.. Fruits yellow or glaucous, often with scattered lenticels, pyriform, subglobose or ovoid, 3.5–8 cm long, 2.5–7 cm in diameter, pulp fleshy, yellowish, 5–30 seeded; pericarp 0.4–7.5 mm thick; seeds irregularly ovoid, up to 21 mm long, laterally compressed, minutely pitted.
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A creeper or vine. It grows to 25 m long. The stem can be 1 m around or 40 cm across. The fruit is pear shaped and yellow. It is 7.5 cm across. It is edible.
Corolla white, with the tube sometimes red at the base.
Dense or lax axillary terminal inflorescences
Climber up to 80 ft. long with tendrils
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