Symphonia louvelii Jum.

An evergreen tree. It grows 20 m tall. It has a sticky yellow exudate. The bark is smooth and yellowish. The leaves and simple and opposite. The blade is broadly oval and 3-6 cm long by 1-2.5 cm wide. They are wedge shaped at the base and rounded at the tip. The flowers are orange-red and have both sexes. The fruit is an oval fleshy berry with 5 rounded sides. It is 16 cm long by 10 cm wide and pointed. It is pale brown with 3-5 seeds. The seeds are kidney shaped.

A shade-loving forest tree, growing below the uppermost canopy storey in moist evergreen forest, at elevations from sea-level up to 1,700 metres, exceptionally to 2,300 metres.

The fruit is eaten and also fermented to make a drink.

Can be grown by seedlings.