A shrub or small, straggling tree (5-27m tall). Leaves (20-30cm) thin leathery, midrib and veins often yellow. The leaves are finely toothed at the edges. Old leaves wither orange to red. Flowers small (3-5cm) a pom-pom of many short pink stamens with small pink petals. The flowers emerge from a long hanging spike (40-100cm long). According to Giesen, the night-blooming flowers have “a very strong fragrant scent “and are pollinated by moths and small bats. Flowering occurs year round. Fruit (3-8cm long) egg- or pear-shaped, sometimes weakly angled or with four faint grooves, green ripening to flushed reddish. The fruit floats and may travel in seawater for many months. Each fruit usually contains only one seed (2 -4cm long).
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