Description:

• Evergreen tree with bark blackish grey, mottled with green and black having exudation milky white latex.
• Leaves are simple, alternate, obovate-oblong, margin entire, glabrous and shining above and scabrous beneath.
• Flowers unisexual, minute, yellowish green.

 Uses:

• The fruit becomes sweeter as it ripens, as some of the carbohydrates are converted into sugars.
• The ashes of leaves, with or without oil, are used to treat ulcers, diarrhoea, boils, stomach-ache and wounds.
• The pulp and seeds of the fruit are regarded as a cooling tonic