Inhambanella henriquesii, commonly known as milk pear, milk-pear, or milkpear in English, melkpeer in Afrikaans, and umbenkela or umthungulu in Zulu,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the pea family, Fabaceae.
The bark is dark brown or grey, exuding copious amounts of white latex when cut.
Fruits are red when mature, 2 to 4 cm in diameter, subglobose or ellipsoid in shape, with an edible pulp.
[1] It grows in the coastal forests of Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, and KwaZulu-Natal, extending up river valleys into the drier interior as far as southern Malawi and Zimbabwe, from sea level up to 300 meters elevation.
[1] The species epithet is named for Julio Augusto Henriques, a Portuguese botanist and plant collector.