Greenish cream flowers, up to 3 millimetres (15⁄128 in) long (all male or female or mixed flowers), in racemes, 10–30 centimetres (4–12 in) long.

Fruit, light green when young, turning to orange or red, trilobed, oval in shape, hairy.

Mwangi et al 1998 find β-caryophyllene oxide, α-humulene-1,2-epoxide, hardwickiic acid, β-sitosterol and stigmasterol in the extracts.

[4][5][6] This contrasts with Sadgrove et al 2019 who find almost entirely bicyclogermacrene in the essential oil.

[6] Sap from leaves is used for healing cuts, bark is used in the treatment of malaria, a decoction from the bark of the roots is taken orally as a remedy for tuberculosis, an infusion of the leaves acts as a purgative.