An evergreen tree to 18 m tall, with spreading, often drooping branches and a broad leafy crown. Bark light-grey, thick and warty. Leaves palmately compound, alternate, digitate; stipules absent; petiole 5-9.5 cm, finely pubescent; leaflets sessile or subsessile, 3-7, elliptic, ovate or broadly ovate, 4.5-12 cm long, 1-5 cm wide, apex acuminate, retuse or occasionally rounded, base cuneate, margins subserrate, bright green, glabrous or with scattered pubescence on the veins, vennation pinnate, anastomising at the margins. Inflorescence paniculate; flowers odourless, small, regular, unisexual, 5-merous, hermaphrodite or occasionally unisexual because of aborted stigmas; sepals lacinate, hirsute; petals greenish-yellow, 3-7 mm long; stamens 5, filaments subulate, thickening at the base; ovary superior, 5-celled, stigma sessile, lobate. Fruit yellowish-green, spherical or ovoid drupe, irregular and knobby, with rough, pitted skin, often with gritty particles in the flesh, 6-10 cm in diameter, smooth, pulp sweet. Seeds oval and wedged, usually 1-6/fruit, 18-23 mm long.

As sedative and and tranquilizer (bark, leaves and seed); vermifugal (fruit).

AgroForestryTree Database
PROSEA (Plant Resources of South-East Asia) Foundation

Ascorbic acid, beta-carotene, niacin, riboflavin and thiamin (fruit); isopimpinellin, N-Hentriacontane (leaves); phellopterin (plant); bergapten, dictamnine, scopoletin, skimmianine (bark); beta-sitosterol (seeds).

Used to lower blood pressure and to soothe rheumatic pains (bark, leaves and seeds); effective in healing putrid sores (crushed seeds); as a treatment for diabetes (leaf decoction); to treat insomnia and for relieving the pains of arthritis and rheumatism (fruit).