This graceful, medium-sized, coastal shade tree to 10–25 m high has a dense spreading canopy and shiny dark green pinnate leaves. Numerous tiny greenish-white flowers appear on large panicles followed by smooth, ovoid, edible orangered fleshy fruits from December through to February. It prefers ample moisture and is ideal for street and park plantings, larger blocks and rural properties. It is a noted indigenous calendar plant with flowering signalling the onset of the wet season. A pantropic species, it also has many indigenous uses in the tropical regions.