Medium to large-sized evergreen tree with rounded crown.
Trunk straight, but not high.
Branches spreading forming a round, shady head.
Leaves :
Fascicled at the ends of the branches, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 20-30 x 10 cm, sharply serrate, the nerves close, running into the serratures not forking at the margins.
Upper surface and nerve beneath are pubescent, petiole 2.5-5 cm, channeled, sheathing.
Inflorescence and Flowers :
Flowers often exceeding 15 cm in diameter, white, fragrant, appearing with the leaves, usually solitary at the end of each branchlet.
Pedicels about 7.5 cm, clavate, round, smooth.
Sepals orbicular, concave, thick and fleshy.
Petals oblong.
Stamens many, the inner ones longer and hard outside, fleshy within.
Ovaries 20.
Fruit : Hard outside, fleshy within. Seeds many, embedded in glutinous pulp, compressed with hairy margins.
Flowering and Fruiting Time : June
Significance : Sepals are eaten by natives and addes to syrup as cough mixture.
