A medium-sized tree growing 6—10 m tall. Bark is dark with light spots. Leaves are simple and alternate, displayed in a flat plane, very regularly arranged along the branchlet which zig-zags between leaves. Flowers emerge with the new leaves are strongscented, solitary, fleshy, large and conical. Fruit is globose to ovoid pseudocarp, up to 20 cm diameter, set with hard, 4-sided, conical protuberances, each tipped with a curved hook, brown felty; pulp aromatic, resembling taste of mango, yellow-orange, with numerous dark brown seeds.

PROSEA (Plant Resources of South-East Asia) Foundation
Fruits of Warm Climates- Julia F. Morton

As a remedy for fever, chills and jaundice (fruit juice); to treat dysentery and edema (decoction of the bark).