Deciduous tree, growing slowly to 30 feet tall and wide (9 m). The flowers are apetalous and unisexual, and borne in panicles. The fruit is a drupe, containing an elongated seed (a nut in the culinary sense, but not a true botanical nut) with a hard, whitish shell and a striking light green kernel, having a very characteristic flavour.

Sedative and tonic (seed)

Plants for a Future

Alanine, alpha-linolenic acid, alpha-tocopherol, arginine, arsenic, aspartic acid, beta-carotene, beta-sitosterol, cystine, folacin, glutamic acid, glycine, histidine, isoleucine, leucine, linoleic acid, lysine, methionine, mufa, myristic acid, niacin, oleic acid, palmitic acid, palmitoleic acid, phenylalanine, squalene, stearic acid, stigmasterol, succinic acid, threonine, tryptophan, tyrosine (seed); shikimic acid (leaf); tannin (plant)

For the treatment of abdominal ailments, abscesses, amenorrhoea, bruises, chest ailments, circulation, dysentery, gynecopathy, pruritus, rheumatism, sclerosis of the liver, sores and trauma (plant)