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*A large, long-lived, evergreen tree up to 30 m tall, with a short stocky trunk; in some cultivars branches crooked or twisting, spreading, forming a crown broader than high; in other cultivars branches fairly straight and upright, forming a compact rounded crown.
*Leaves alternate, pinnately compound, 2-4(-5)-jugate; petiolules 3-8 mm long; leaflets oblong-lanceolate, (3-)8-11(-16) cm × 1.75-4 cm, chartaceous to coriaceous, glossy and deep green above, glaucous beneath.
*Inflorescences many-branched panicles, 5-30 cm long, many-flowered; flowers .*Flowers small, yellowish-white, functionally male or female; calyx 4-merous; corolla absent; stamens 6(-10), filaments in male flowers at least twice the length of the calyx, in female flowers very short.
*Fruit a rounded, ovoid or heart-shaped drupe, ca. 3-3.5 cm in diameter; exocarp thin, leathery, bright red to purplish, nearly smooth or scaly to densely set with flat, conical, acute warts; the fleshy edible portion is the aril, an outgrowth of the seed stalk, in good fruits comprising 70-80% of the fruit weight; aril white and translucent.
*Seed 10-23 mm × 6-12 mm, brown.