Pouteria speciosa (Ducke) Baehni

A tree. It grows to 25 m tall. The trunk is 60 cm across. The leaves are simple and alternate. The leaves are 15-35 cm long by 6-15 cm wide. The flowers are in the axils of the leaves. The fruit has a single seed. The fruit is 4-10 cm long by 4-8 cm wide. The seed has a hard seed coat.

It is a tropical plant. It grows in areas with 2,000 mm rain per year. The temperature is about 25°C. It grows in uplands and flood plains in the Amazon in Brazil.

The fruit are eaten raw.

Plants are grown from seeds. The seeds are collected from ripe fruit that have fallen and the fruit are allowed to partly decompose in heaps to make removing the seeds easier. The seeds are washed then planted fresh. Seedlings emerge in 2-3 months.