Fairly common in some of the islands All parts of the plant, especially fruits, are poisonous. The bark, leaves fruits of and latex are used as a remedy for rabies, skin disases and ringworm. The fruits are used for manufacturing bioinsecticides and deodorants. 5, 2,
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All parts of the plant, especially fruits, are poisonous. The bark, leaves fruits of and latex are used as a remedy for rabies, skin disases and ringworm. The fruits are used for manufacturing bioinsecticides and deodorants. 5, 2,
Small evergreen trees; bark greenish-brown, latex milky. Leaves simple, alternate, crowned at the apex of × branches, 10-25 2.5-6.5 cm, lanceolate or oblanceolate; base cuneate or attenuate; apex acuminate or acute; margin entire, bright green and shiny; lateral nerves many, close; petiole 8-35 mm long, slender, glabrous. Flowers bisexual, 5 cm across, white, in pseudoterminal cymes. Calyx lobes 5, linear, recurved. Corolla lobes 5, tube funnel-shaped above the throat with 5 villous scales. Stamens 5, small, included, anthers lanceolate, apiculate. Carpels 2, free, ovules 4 in each cell on both sides of thick placenta. Fruit a drupe, globose or ellipsoid, pericarp green turning rose; seeds 1 or 2, compressed.
native range
Indian subcontinent, Indochina, Malaysia and the Pacific