Manilkara discolor (Sond.) J.H.Hemsl.

Tree, 10-20 m high; stem up to 60 cm diam. with grey, longitudinally fissured bark; young vegetative parts shortly puberulous-tomentose, the pubescence cinnamon-coloured; older parts, except the lower surface of the leaf, very soon glabrous. Leaves crowded at the tips of the branches, rather uniform in shape, obovate-oblong, sometimes oblong, or more or less spathulate-or lanceolate-oblong, narrowed at the base, with a rounded, obtuse, subacute or very shortly acuminate and usually recurved, almost invariably emarginate apex, green above, densely appressed-silvery-pubescent beneath, except on the midrib, with slightly recurved margins, 3.5-10 cm long, 1.5-4.5 cm wide; midrib very prominent beneath, at first finely rusty-pubescent, ultimately glabrous and of a different colour than the silvery lower surface of the leaf; secondary nerves 10-15 or more on either side, straight, tertiary nerves parallel to the secondary ones, usually inconspicuous below, but appearing as a fine striation above; fine ultimate nervation reticulate, usually indistinct below except in the oldest leaves, but distinct and impressed above and giving the upper surface of the leaf a minutely tessellate, dull appearance; petioles terete, narrowly canaliculate above, glabrous, 6-15 mm long. Flowers in few-flowered fascicles (often about 3 together); pedicels 5-10 mm long, rusty-pubescent. Sepals almost completely free; the three outer ones rather coriaceous, broadly ovate, narrowed towards the tips, but not acute, about 5 mm long and 4 mm wide, rusty-pubescent outside, subciliate, glabrous inside except near the apex, the inner ones narrower, 5-5.5 mm long and about 3 mm wide, yellowish, whitish appressed-pubescent outside and near the apex inside. Corolla white or yellowish; tube 1.5-2 mm long, cylindric; lobes long-spathulate with a long-tapering, narrow base and rounded apex, the appendage broader, lanceolate-oblong or linear, acuminate, all segments 3-3.5 mm long. Filaments 2-2.5 mm long, filiform, slender; anthers 1.5-2 mm long, ovate-cordate, apiculate. Ovary depressed-conical, 1 mm high and 1 mm in diameter, dense-sericeous-pilose; style glabrous, cylindric, 3-3.5 mm long, into the subcapitate, more or less 6-lobed stigma. Imperfect flowers on shorter pedicels, often considerably smaller (e.g. calyx-and corolla-lobes only 2 mm long); corolla-lobes with reduced lateral appendages, trifid, tridentate or entire; anthers usually very small or wanting; ovary and style as above or sometimes smaller. Fruit spherical, edible and red when ripe, but when dried ellipsoid, 8-12 mm long and 5-10 mm in diam., crowned by the persistent style. Seed elliptic in outline, compressed, about 8 mm long, 5 mm wide, and 3.5 mm thick in the middle; scar basilateral, oval or elliptic, 3-4 mm long, and 1-2 mm wide in the widest place; testa pale fawn-coloured when dry, thin and brittle.

A tropical plant. It grows over a wide range of altitudes from sea level to 2000 m in evergreen forest. It grows in lowland forests in well-drained dry sands. It can grow in arid places.

The ripe fruit are eaten raw. The seeds are discarded.

Plants can be grown from seeds.