An erect shrub to 3 m with a cross-chambered pith. Leaves are oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, simple, opposite, entire, pinnately veined, margins entire to irregularly, distally serrate-toothed. Flowers are perfect, the corolla tube campanulate and bright greenish-yellow. Fruits are a bilocular, many-seeded, broadly ovoid capsule.

Antibacterial, antifungal, antispasmdic and emmenagogue (fruit)

Plants for a Future

Betulinic acid (fruit)

To treat carbuncles, mastitis, inflammation, suppuration, lymphadenitis and suppressed menstruation