| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Lauraceae |
| Habit | Medium sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Trees, bark grey mottled with green, lenticellate; blaze creamy yellow with sclerotic streaks; branches rusty tomentose. Leaves simple, 3-5 in a whorl, opposite or subopposite, estipulate; petiole 10-20 mm long, stout, tomentose; lamina 8-24 x 2.5-7.5 cm, elliptic-lanceolate, base cuneate-attenuate, apex acuminate, margin entire, glabrate above and fulvous villous beneath, subcoriaceous; lateral nerves 10-15 pairs, pinnate, prominent, flowers unisexual, in lateral umbels or short subracemes; fruit a berry 8-10 mm across, ovoid, black. |