Evergreen tree to 18 m with straight trunk and dense narrowly columnar crown and slender drooping twigs (var. pendula) and the wild form with thick bushy crown. Leaves 12-23 cm long, narrowly lanceolate with tapering tip and wavy margin. Flowers 1.2-2 cm long, pale green to cream or yellowish, not fragrant, in dense groups at leaf axils. Fruits 1.5-2 cm on stout individual stalk, numerous fruits up to 15 on woody common stalk, ovoid, ripening yellow to black.