A medium-sized tree up to 25(–35) m tall; bole up to 60(–80) cm in diameter, straight, often fluted or angular, reaching up to 12 m to the first branches, with steep buttresses at base; bark up to 2.5 cm thick, surface greyish brown, fissured, inner bark fibrous, brown, exuding a white sticky latex; crown spreading; young branches greyish brown to reddish brown appressed hairy. Leaves arranged spirally in tufts at the ends of branches, simple and entire; stipules absent; petiole 1.5–3.5 cm long, appressed hairy; blade elliptical to obovate-oblong, 15–35 cm × 5–13 cm, cuneate at base, shortly acuminate at apex, greyish brown to reddish brown appressed hairy below, pinnately veined with 15–30 pairs of straight lateral veins. Flowers in axillary fascicles, bisexual, regular, 5-merous; pedicel up to 5 mm long; sepals free, broadly ovate, c. 4 mm long, pubescent outside; corolla with c. 3 mm long tube and rounded lobes c. 2 mm long, hairy at margins, creamy white; stamens inserted in corolla tube, opposite corolla lobes; ovary superior, conical, long-hairy, 5-celled, style short, tapering. Fruit a large, ovoid to globose berry up to 7 cm long, becoming yellow-orange and glabrous when ripe, slightly pointed at apex, up to 5-seeded. Seeds ellipsoid, flattened, up to 3.5 cm × 2 cm, shiny brown.

Stomachic and carminative (bark infusion)

PROTAbase: Chrysophyllum africanum

A maceration of the stem bark is taken to promote lactation. Powdered bark is applied to sores. The fruit is used to treat diarrhoea and vomiting.