Mimusops obovata Sond.

Tree up to 20 m high; stem 60 cm diam.; vegetative parts very soon quite glabrous; branchlets glabrous, as a rule uniformly leafy. Leaves variable in size and shape, but usually obovate, obovate-oblong or obovate-cuneate, sometimes more elliptic or obovate-oblanceolate, 2-7 cm long and 1-4 cm broad, rarely narrowly lanceolate, 2.5-6 cm long and 4-9 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, usually drying very dark brown and shiny above, pale brown and dull beneath, apex obtuse or rarely subacute, sometimes rounded but not infrequently with a short, blunt acumen; base tapering; margin minutely reflexed; tertiary veins forming a rather fine reticular nervation which is usually very conspicuous in dried leaves, at least on the lower surface; petioles 3-9 mm long. Flowers white, fragrant, solitary or in twos in the leaf axils; pedicels 1-3 cm long, brownish-tomentose, slender, suberect to patent, usually not distinctly drooping. Sepals narrowly ovate-lanceolate, acuminate; outer sepals 6-12 mm long and 3-3.5 mm wide, shortly rusty-tomentose with a very narrow whitish or pale grey edge; inner sepals slightly shorter and narrower, with a pale grey or whitish tomentum and minutely ciliate, soon reflexed. Corolla-tube about 1 mm long; lobes linear-lanceolate or narrowly oblong, about 1 cm long, rarely smaller, the lateral appendages about as long, usually more acute than the lobes. Filaments 1-2.5 mm long, anthers sagittate or linear-oblong, apiculate, 3-6 mm long. Staminodes long-triangular or lanceolate-subulate from a broad base, villous outside, shorter than the stamens but longer than the filaments. Ovary ovoid or oblong-ovoid, about 2 mm long, densely pilose; style glabrous, terete, slender, to about 12 mm long, its apex truncate, often subcapitellate. Fruit ovoid or ovoid-acuminate, 2-3.5 cm long, 1-2 cm in diam., often 1-seeded, ultimately glabrous, smooth, orange-red or yellow when ripe. Seed, when single, 2-2.5 cm long, 8-10 mm broad and 6-8 mm thick in the centre, oblong, with rounded apex and obliquely truncate-notched base, often distinctly keeled on the side above the about 2 mm wide scar, but when more seeds are present in one fruit, often smaller and irregularly shaped, more flattened and less distinctly truncate-notched or keeled; testa brown, shiny.

A subtropical plant. It can grow near the coast on dunes but also in open inland forest. It can grow in arid places. It suits hardiness zones 9-11. Melbourne Botanical Gardens.

The ripe fruit are eaten raw. They are pleasant tasting. They are used to make jellies and wine.

Plants can be grown from seed.