Manilkara hexandra Dubard

Shrubs or trees, 3--12 m tall. Bark gray. Branchlets glabrous. Leaves alternate, often closely clustered at end of branchlets, with conspicuous scars; petiole 0.8--2 cm; leaf blade obovate to obovate-elliptic, 5--10 X 3--7 cm, both surfaces glabrous, base broadly cuneate to obtuse, apex retuse, midrib raised abaxially, lateral veins slender and parallel, veinlets dense. Flowers axillary, fascicled. Pedicel thick, 1--1.8 cm. Sepals ovate-triangular, 3--4 mm, outside yellowish gray tomentose. Corolla white or light yellow, ca. 4 mm; lobes oblong, ca. 3 mm. Stamens ca. 5 mm; staminodes 2-parted, lobes linear, ca. 3 mm. Ovary ovoid, ca. 2 mm, 6-locular, tomentose. Berry obovoid-oblong to ellipsoid, 1--1.5 cm, 1-or 2-seeded. Seeds ca. 8--10 mm. Fl. Aug-Dec.

A tropical plant. Plants grow in thickets at low altitudes. In India they grow in dry forests in the West. Deccan. It grows along roadsides and wastelands. It can be along seashores. It grows in semi-arid conditions.

The seeds contain edible oil. The ripe fruit are eaten fresh or dried. They are very sweet. They are also put into a pot with sugar to form a sticky black mass that is eaten. The bark is added to palm sugar to restrict fermentation.

Plants can be grown from seed. They can also be grown from cuttings or by air-layering. They can be grafted.