| Description | Evergreen tree up to 25 m Tall, Bark blackish-grey, mottled with green and black, exudation milky white latex. Leaves simple, alternate, obovate, margin entire. Flowers unisexual, minute, yellowish-green, in spikes enclosed by spathe-like bracts. Male flower from young branches, catkin inflorescence narrow-cylindric, perianth 2-lobed, puberulous, stamen 1, filament somewhat flattened, stout, anthers ovate-oblong, female catkins from the trunk and mature branches, more massive, perianth with strongly projecting conical apex, ovary - 0.3 mm, superior, globose-obovoid, style exserted, stigma spathulate. Fruit a sorosis, fruiting perianth yellow to light orange, fleshy, seeds elliptic-oblong, smooth, glossy. |
