Description :

• Garlic Pear Tree, to 10 m high, bark surface grey, smooth, longitudinally wrinkled.
• Leaves alternate, digitately trifoliate; leaflets unequal, ovate, margin entire. Flowers bisexual, creamy white, in terminal corymbs. Sepals 4, free, oblong, adnate to the lobed disc.
• Petals 4, creamy white, often tinged with purple. Disc incurved, nectariferous. Stamens many, free, inserted at the base of gynophores.

Uses

• Fruits edible, the juice from the bitter stem or root bark is used in decoction for stimulating the appetite or as a digestive, as a laxative against colic and as a febrifuge, the root bark is used to treat urolithiasis.
• The fresh leaves are rubefacient and tonic, they are applied as a tonic and skin irritant against high fever.
• Bark is used locally for carving and to make household utensils, drums and match sticks.