A tree, 3—10 m tall, with short and crooked trunk, 30—50 cm diameter, often branched near the base and with irregular canopy. Leaves opposite, elliptic-cordate to obovate-oblong, 7—25 cm x 2.5—16 cm, not or slightly aromatic when bruised; petiole 0.5—1.5 mm long. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, 3—7-flowered; flowers 2.5—3.5 cm in diameter; calyx tube 5—7 mm long; petals 4, spathulate, up to 7 mm long, yellow-white; stamens 0.75—2 cm long, numerous; style up to 17 mm long. Fruit a berry, turbinate, 1.5—2 cm x 2.5—3.5 cm, crowned by the fleshy calyx segments, white to red, glossy; flesh very juicy, watery, hardly aromatic. Seeds 1—2(—6), rounded, small. |
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