Home
An evergreen tree. It can grow to 35 m tall. The trunk can be 1 m across. The crown of the tree is leafy and oval. The bark is dark grey, rough and deeply grooved. The small branches have red brown hairs. The leaves are oval and 10 cm long. The tip is blunt. The midrib under the leaf is hairy. The leaf stalk is 15 mm long. The flowers are creamy white. They occur as 1-4 flowers together in the axils of the leaves. They are on stalks 2-5 cm long. The flowers have a smell. The fruit is fleshy with a stone containing a kernel. It is 2 cm across. The fruit is orange-yellow and pointed. It contains one red brown seed.
Leaves 4·5–14 x 2–5·5 cm., ovate–oblong to obovate, the apex rounded, acute or acuminate, the base acute; petiole 0·5–1(1·5) cm. long. Upper surface mat or glossy, with prominent midrib but usually obscure vein reticulation, glabrous. Lower surface mat, with prominent midrib and obscure reticulation, usually glabrous, rarely ferrugineous appressed–pubescent.
Corolla equalling or slightly shorter than calyx, white; lateral segments simple, lanceolate or sometimes divided into 2–3 laciniae, median segments elliptic; tube 1–2 mm. long.
Shrub or small to large tree; bark dark grey, fissured longitudinally or into square flakes, slash pink.
Fruit up to 2·5 cm. long, an edible plum–shaped 1–2–seeded berry yellowish–orange to red when ripe.
Rusty-tomentose, long-stalked white flowers 2-4 together in the axils of the upper leaves.
Young stems yellowish, whitish or ferrugineous pubescent, soon glabrescent.
Older twigs with longitudinally wrinkled grey bark.
Flowers 1–4 in leaf axils; pedicels 2–8 cm. long.
Gynoecium 8–12 mm. long.
Seed up to 1·8 cm. long.
Anthers 2·5–4 mm. long.
Calyx 9–12 mm. long.
A rather small tree
