A small or medium-sized evergreen tree, 10-15 m tall, with spreading branches and dense crown, quadrangular branchlets, drying grey, yellow wood, ochraceous, brownish-grey or brown to dark brown, thin, smooth bark, exuding brilliant dark yellow, sticky, thick latex, elliptic, ovate, obovate or oblanceolate, coriaceous leaves, white, faintly fragrant male flowers and axillary, solitary larger females flowers, yellowish, globose 4-lobed berries, with pink shades, containing 4 dark brown, laterally compressed, ovoid or reniform, muricate seeds embedded in sweet, acidic pulp.

ulcers, inflammation, pimples, boils, worm infestations, fever, jaundice, diabetes