Pouteria ramiflora Radlk.

It is a large tree. It grows 10-25 m high. Often the trunk is short and gnarled. The young shoots have golden-brown hairs. The branches contain a milky latex like sap. The bark is cracked and scaly. The leaves are spaced and arranged in spirals. The leaves are 5-18.4 cm long by 2.5-8.4 cm wide. They are oval. There are 8-16 pairs of secondary veins. The leaf stalk is 0.6-1.8 cm long. The flowers occur in tufts of 5-15 flowers. The flowers are of one sex. The separate sexes occur on separate plants. The flowers are greenish-white. The fruit are green and egg shaped. It is 2.5-5 cm long. The fruit are edible. There is one seed. The seed is 1.6-3.2 cm long. The pulp is soft and white.

Barren lands and semi-deciduous forests. A characteristic tree of the semi-deciduous forests and their transition to the savannah, it is found in dense primary forest and less often in secondary formations.

The fruit are eaten fresh.

Plants are grown from seed. The seed are removed from ripe fruit. Seeds only remian viable for a short time. Seeds germinate in 20-40 days.