Mimusops bagshawei S.Moore

Tall tree with long straight bole, height up to 40 m.; bark of twigs deep purplish-brown, rough and fissured.. Young branches and petioles puberulous, becoming glabrescent.. Petioles 1–2(–2.3) cm. long.. Leaf-lamina elliptic to elliptic-oblong or rarely obovate-oblong, 5.5–12(–14) cm. long, 2–5.3(–5.6) cm. wide, apex shortly acuminate or ± cuspidate, cuneate; upper surface with slightly raised nerves, lower surface practically glabrous or with scattered hairs along midrib; lateral nerves and veins slightly raised.. Flowers fragrant, 2–4 per axil, ± pendulous; pedicels curved, up to 1 cm. in length, with dense buff-coloured pubescence.. Outer sepals ± ovate, 5.5–7 mm. long, with dense buff to pale brown pubescence externally.. Corolla greenish-yellow or cream; lobes trifid; segments oblong-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, up to 5 mm. long, with outer pair sometimes irregularly serrate near apex (very rarely bifid to base); tube up to 1.5 mm. long.. Filaments up to 1.5 mm. long; staminodes oblong-lanceolate, up to 4.5 mm. long, acute.. Ovary densely pilose with short pale brown hairs; style tapering, up to 4 mm. in length.. Fruit a yellow or orange-yellow broadly ovoid berry, up to 2.5 cm. long and 2 cm. in diameter, with greyish flannel-like indumentum when young, later becoming glabrous.. Seeds 1–3, up to 9 mm. long, tending to be triangular in cross-section, obscurely ridged along the broader margin, and usually with a small basal projection; testa brown; scar ± basal.

A tropical plant. It grows in lowland and mountain forests. In Tanzania it grows between 1,100-2,400 m above sea level.

The soft inner part of the bark is used as a relish in soup. The ripe fruit are eaten. The seeds are discarded.

Can be grown by seedlings.