many[2] Sapium glandulosum is a species of tree in the family Euphorbiaceae.

It is native to the Neotropics from Mexico and the Caribbean south to Argentina, and it has been cultivated elsewhere.

[7] This is a species of tree up to 30 meters tall, usually with some buttress roots and multiple trunks.

The tiny rounded purple male flower is barely over a millimeter long.

The fruit is a greenish-brown, rounded capsule up to a centimeter long which splits into 3 segments, each holding a seed.