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Petals white or pale yellow outside, magenta within, the outer ones 2–5 x 0.3–0.4 cm., linear, curved in section above, broadened and concave at the base, sericeous-pubescent outside, puberulous or glabrous within; the inner ones somewhat shorter and narrower, otherwise similar.
Fruit on a pedicel 4–7 mm. long; fruiting carpels 3–9, 1–4.8 x 0.8–1.1 cm., 1–8-seeded, cylindric or obovoid, curved, not apiculate, glabrescent, finely rugose, scarcely vertically ridged, scarlet outside, pink within, on stipes 4–10 mm. long.
A shrub or medium sized tree. It can be 13-15 m high. The leaves are thin and leathery. The fruit is red or blackish and 5 cm long by 1-1.5 cm wide. They are curved. The pulp of coral-red. They have a spicy taste.
Carpels 5–10, 3.5–4.5 mm. long; ovary ovoid-cylindric, appressed-pilose; style c. 1.5–2 times as long as the ovary, cylindric, with a terminal tuft of hairs.
Branches orange-red to purple-brown, smooth, spreading-pubescent at first, eventually glabrous; lenticels usually numerous; bark often exfoliating.
Flowers solitary (very rarely 2–3), fragrant; pedicels absent or up to 6 mm. long, appressed-rusty-pubescent; bracteoles 2–5, oblong to orbicular.
Sepals 2–3.5 mm. long, ovate to semi-orbicular, obtuse or apiculate to rounded, appressed-pubescent outside, glabrous and magenta within.
Stamens 1.5–2 mm. long, linear or cuneate; connective-prolongation ± obliquely capitate, papillose.
Seeds c. 1 cm. long, ellipsoid, reddish-brown, oblique, uniseriate; aril inconspicuous.
Shrub or tree, 2–20 (30) m. high, sometimes scrambling.
A shrub or small tree of forest
Fruits scarlet.
