A tree. It grows to 30 m high. The trunk is 60 cm across. There are slender buttresses 1.5 m high. The young shoots have soft hairs at first. The leaves are spaced. They are arranged in spirals. They are 6-15 cm long by 2.5-5 cm wide. The leaf stalk is 0.4-2 cm long. The flowers occur in tufts of 2-25 flowers in the axils of leaves or below the leaves. The flowers are on one sex with separate sexes on separate plants. The flowers are white to pale green. The fruit are 2.3-5.5 cm long. They are oval. They ripen to yellow or orange. There is one seed. The seed is 1.4-2,7 cm long. The pulp around the seed is edible.
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