An evergreen tree that can reach 35 m and has a diameter of more than 1m, the crown leafy and oval, only found to the west of the Rift Valley in riverine and moist forests. It is a tree to 35 m, often with a rough bark. Leaves clustered at the end of branchlets, up to 5 x 14 cm, usually widest in the middle but narrowing abruptly near the tip. Flowers are greenish to cream, small. Fruit slightly elongate, pointed, up to 3cm long, orange-yellow when ripe, edible. The wood is hard and heavy.