Vasconcellea candicans is a small tree native to the western slopes of the Andes in southern Ecuador and Peru.

[1] Small dioecious shrub or tree to 8 m high.

[1] Leaves ovate or almost rounded, with a slightly cordate base, margin entire or sometimes sinuately dentate and obtuse or acute apex; palmately veined; glabrous above, hairy below.

[2] Male inflorescence a small cyme with many flowers; tiny 5- or 7-lobed calyx; 5- or 7- lobed corolla; stamens twice as many as the lobes of the corolla, with linear-oblong anthers.

Fruit ellipsoidal, yellow green at maturity, 10-18 x 4-6 cm; many seeds.