Tree 15-33 m high, 30-70 cm Ø. Bark grey, rather smooth, or superficially, broadly fissured. Leaves rigidly coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, sometimes obovate-oblong, (17½-)28-45 by (7-) 10-15 cm (sapling leaves up to 40 by 10 cm; petiole up to 12 cm long); base cuneate to attenuate; apex mucronate or acute; nerves 14-30 pairs, prominent; veins invisible to obscure; petiole (2½-)5-7 cm, convex beneath, grooved or flat above. Panicles terminal and sometimes also in the uppermost leaf axils, pyramidal, up to 30 cm long, glabrous; lateral branches up to 18 cm long, rather densely flowered; floral bracts ovate or ovate-oblong, l½45- long; pedicels c. 1 mm. Calyx 5-lobed, lobes ovate, 2½-3 mm long, glabrous. Petals 5, purple on the inner surface, pinkish white outside, elliptic-oblong or-lanceolate, sometimes oblanceolate, 7-7½ by 2½-3 mm; ridges 3, c. ⅔ the length of petals, confluent at the lower l-1½ nim (the united part extending beyond the base of the petal and stipe-like). Disk pulvinate, stipe-like, c. ½ mm high. Stamens 5, usually 2 fertile, 6½-7mm; filaments connate at the base; anthers broad-ovoid, 1 mm long; staminodes up to 5 mm. Ovary white when fresh, ellipsoid, c. 1 mm ø; style excentric, 6 mm. Drupe (fresh) brownish, broad-ovoid or globose, 9½-12(-20) by 6½-9(-15 or more) cm Ø, roughish; fresh yellowish white, fibrous. Seed not labyrinthine.
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A tree. It grows 15-33 m tall. Sometimes it loses its leaves. The trunk is 30-70 cm across. The bark is brown or grey. It can be smooth or cracked. The leaves are oblong and 28-45 cm long by 10-15 cm wide. They are rigid and rough. They have prominent veins. The leaf stalk is 5-7 cm long. The flower panicles are at the ends of branches and are erect and pyramid shape. They can be 30 cm long and densely covered with flowers. The flowers are pink on the outside and purple inside. The fruit are round or oval and 20 cm across. The flesh is thick and fibrous. The skin is 1 cm thick and brown. The flesh is deep orange-yellow. The stone is plump and 9 cm long by 6.5 cm wide and 4.5 cm thick.
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