Pouteria gardneri (Mart. & Miq.) Baehni

A tree. It grows 7-10 m high. The trunk is 30-40 cm across. The young shoots are hairy. The leaves are alternate and loosely clustered near the ends of branches. The leaves are 6-18 cm long by 3-4 cm wide. They taper towards the base. The leaf stalk is 3-9 mm long. The flowers are of one sex with different sexes on separate plants. The flowers occur in clusters of 1-3 flowers in the axils of leaves. The flowers are greenish. The fruit stalk is 0.4-1 cm long. It is slender and can be hairy. The fruit is fleshy with a hard stone. The fruit are 1-1.7 cm long. It is black when ripe. The fruit is edible. The seed is 0.9-1.4 cm long.

Semi-deciduous forests. Found mainly in secondary formations and in primary forests on high terrains.

The fruit are eaten raw.

Plants are grown from seed. Ripe fruit are harvested and the seeds removed and planted fresh. They germinate in 40-70 days.