Large evergreen shrub or small tree to 8 m tall and forming thicket. Leaves 15-30 cm long, elliptic to obovate, margin with shallow teeth. Flowers 8-12 cm across, yellow with yellow stamens, in branched clusters of 3-12 downward-facing flowers. Fruits c. 5 cm across, splitting open star-shaped when ripe into 5-8 carpels, pink to dull red and seeds covered with red arils.