Tree, to 20 (25) m tall, to ca 40 cm dbh; outer bark moderately thin, fissured, soft; inner bark reddish, coarsely fibrous; sap white, usually not copious. Petioles 8-25 mm long; blades +/- elliptic, acuminate, acute to obtuse at base, 10-25 (33) cm long, 5.5-11 (14) cm wide, glabrous above, glabrate to obscurely appressed-pubescent below with short T-shaped trichomes; lateral veins in 10-20 pairs, forming a loose collecting vein near the margin. Fascicles axillary; pedicels to 7 mm long; flowers 5-parted, ca 6 mm long, several to numerous; calyx ca 2 mm long, deeply lobed, the lobes ovate to suborbicular, imbricate; pedicels, calyx, and corolla pubescent with appressed T-shaped trichomes; corolla urceolate, to 5.5 mm long, the lobes short, deltoid to broadly ovate, +/- spreading; stamens equaling and opposite the lobes, attached at base of lobes, ca 0.5 mm long; filaments fused to corolla except at deltoid apex; anthers deltoid-sagittate; pollen scant; ovary sericeous; style 1-1.5 mm long; stigma 5-lobed. Fruits oblate-spheroid to ovoid, usually depressed at apex and also around pedicel, ca 2 cm diam, purplish-brown; exocarp thin, with some milky sap; mesocarp whitish, fleshy, sweet, tasty; seeds oblique-obovate, flattened, 1-2.5 cm long, brown, the hilum lateral, extending nearly the length of seed. Croat 7825.