Medium-sized tree to 25 m tall. Leaves 15-22 cm long, ovate to elliptic-oblong. Male and female flowers in separate trees. Both male and female flowers on racemes, greenish-white for male and yellowish-brown for female, fragrant, male racemes up to 7 cm long in leaf axils just below leaves, female to 30 cm long at leaf axils or along older branches. Fruits 1.2-2 cm long, globose, ripening orange or yellow-brown, splitting open when ripe, exposing seeds with orange-red pulp.