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A tree growing 15 to 40 m high. It is higher in tropical areas. The leaves are simple and alternate. The leaves are olive green. They are 13 cm long by 4 cm wide. The leaf stalk is usually short. The leaves have a bitter, burning taste. The flowers are small and green. They contain both sexes. The flowers are in the axils of leaves. The fruit are round berries up to 4 cm across. They are dark green and turn purple.
Leaves 4.5–11 x 1.5–2.5 cm., oblong to oblong-lanceolate or elliptic, acute at the apex, cuneate at the base, shiny above, paler beneath, densely pellucid-dotted; petiole 2–5 mm. long.
Tree, up to 10 m high. Leaves shiny above, paler below; densely pellucid-dotted, shortly petiolate, margin slightly involute, with a bitter taste. Flowers yellow or green.
Flowers solitary or in short 3-flowered cymes; peduncle 2–3 mm. long; bracts 0.5 mm. long, deciduous leaving conspicuous scars; pedicels c. 1.5 mm. long.
Tree or shrub 4–10(18) m. tall with rough mottled grey bark, red on inner side; branches striate and lenticellate.
Petals: outer 4–5 x 3 mm., obovate, concave, subcoriaceous; inner yellow, 4 x 1.5 mm. spathulate, thinner.
Fruits reddish-blue, 2–3 x 1.5–2.5 cm.; pericarp coriaceous, wrinkled; seeds several, flattened.
Staminal tube 3–4 mm. long; anthers 1.5 mm. long.
Sepals 2 x 3 mm., minutely ciliate.
Ovary 3 mm. long; ovules 15–20.
