It is found on Cuba, Hispaniola (the Dominican Republic and Haiti), and Puerto Rico.

The compound leaves are each made up of several lance-shaped, toothed leaflets up to 9 centimeters long.

The fruit is a drupe roughly 2 to 3 centimeters long with a black husk and a seed, which is an edible walnut meat, inside.

[2] The attractive wood is similar to that of the black walnut (Juglans nigra).

It may never have been common, but specimens were likely lost when forest was cleared for coffee plantations on Puerto Rico, and it was probably harvested for wood.