Ornamental plant.

Shrub or small tree 2-15 m tall; bark grayish, smooth, peeling off in irregular plates, leaving a reddish brown bark underneath; stems cylindric, puberulent, pilose, or papillose. Leaf blades 7- 21 x 6.5-26 cm, reniform, rounded, or obovate, thick-coriaceous, glabrous except for numerous hairs along the vein sides, the tertiary venation finely reticulate, inconspicuous, the apex rounded or notched, the base cordate to rounded, usually with one or both lobes over the petiole, the margins entire to slightly crenate, revolute; petioles 7-10 mm long, stout, pilose to papillose, reddish- tinged; ocrea 7-10 mm long, puberulent, coriaceous, persistent, reddish-tinged. Flowers greenish yellow to whitish, 3-4 at ocreate, congested nodes of terminal racemes; axes 10-25 cm long, puberulent to papillose; pedicels 2-2.5 mm long. Perianth ca. 3 mm long, the hypanthium tapering, ca. 1 mm long, crowned by 5 spreading, oblong lobes 2-2.2 mm long. Achene inversely pear-shaped to obovoid, 1.4-2 cm long, covered by a fleshy, juicy (edible) hypanthium, that turns purple at maturity.

Cultivated in UAE as ornamental plant.