Plant Description:

It is a medium size tree with a straight trunk of 15 to 22 meters in

height and a girth of 1.5 to 1.8 meters. The bark is dark grey or

brown and 1.3 cm thick. Leaves are 20 to 35 cm long and 9-18

cm wide, crowded at the end of branches. The fruit is a berry, 2 to

4.5 cm long, bright green or blackish, shinning with a thick soft

pericarp. The fruit is oval in shape and green in color with three

seeds that turn juicy and grey after ripening. The exterior of the

fruit is thick, soft, and rich with glucose and fragrance. It contains

black and sparkling seeds of 1.5 to 2 cm in length, which have

almond shaped white colored kernels inside. The seed coat is thin

to thick and woody to crusty.