Description

• Manilkarazapotaasmall, evergreen tree having a crown of branches with milky latex in young parts.
• Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, smooth shining, dark green above and pale beneath arranged almost in whorl manner at the apex of branches.
• Flowers pale yellow, clustered at the apex of branches.
• Fruit a berry, globose, rusty and sweet scented when ripe.

Uses   

• Fruits are edible.
• Young fruits. high tannin content, boiled and decotion drunk to treat diarhhea. Seed paste applied to bite and sting wounds due to poisonous animals.
• Young leaf shoots washed to remove sap and eaten raw or with rice in Indonesia. Gummy latex used in tropics to fill dental cavities or make figurines.
• Wood strong and durable, used to make beams and furniture. Gummy latex tapped from trunk during rainy season (latex flows better) for making chewing gum and adhesives.