Schotia latifolia Jacq.

Tree up to 10(15) m high with a somewhat rounded crown. Bark smooth, dull grey to reddish-brown; young branchlets glabrous to shortly pubescent. Leaves glabrous to shortly pubescent: petiole 0.5-2 cm long; rhachis (2)4-8(10) cm long, slightly channelled above, winged in the juvenile state; leaflets 3-5 pairs, usually opposite, sessile, elliptic-oblong to obovate, (1.5)2.5-6.5 cm long, (1)1.4-3.5 cm wide, cuneate to rounded basally, oblique, rounded to acute apically, rarely mucronate, the upper leaflets the largest. Stipules ovate, up to 4 mm long, deciduous. Inflorescence a terminal or lateral panicle, usually relatively open; branches of inflorescence patent, glabrous to shortly pubescent. Flowers on pedicels less than 2 mm long; bracts scale-like, deciduous. Calyx reddish-brown, leathery; tube very short, turbinate, 1.5-2 mm long, persistent; lobes 4, subequal, obovate, 5-8 mm long, 4-5 mm wide. Petals 5, equal or, occasionally, 1 slightly reduced, pink to flesh-coloured, veined, oblanceolate, 9-11 mm long, 2.5-3 mm wide. Stamens 10; filaments united basally for 0.5-5 mm, the staminal sheath split open on the side to which the stipe of the ovary is attached to the calyx receptacle, filaments linear, 10-14 mm long, exceeding the corolla by 2-3 mm; anthers elliptic, 1.5-2 mm long. Ovary oblong, 4-5 mm long, ±2 mm wide, compressed, on a stipe ±2 mm long, stipe adnate to one side of calyx receptacle; style 10-12 mm long. Pods as in generic description, 5-14 cm long, 3-4.5 cm wide. Seeds pale brown, 11-14 mm long, 7.5-10 mm wide, 5-7 mm thick, with a large yellow basal aril.

A tropical plant. It grows in dry scrub forest. It can grow in arid places. It suits hardiness zones 9-12.

The green pods were roasted and the seeds eaten.

Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.