Muntingia calabura

Small evergreen tree, 3Ð12 m tall, growing and flowering continuously on fan-like branches;mainline branches becoming erect after leaf fall and so in turn contributing to the formation of the trunk (Troll's architectural model). Branches horizontal, pendant towards the tip, soft-hairy. Leaves simple, ovate-lanceolate, 4Ð14 x 1Ð4 cm, with prominent asymmetry of the leaf blade base;leaf margin serrate, lower leaf surface greyish pubescent. Flowers in 1Ð3(Ð5)-flowered supra-axillary fascicles, hermaphrodite, pentamerous with white petals;number of stamens increasing from 10Ð25 in the first emerging flower in the fascicle to more than 100 in the last;development of the superior ovary declining in the same order, so that from the third and later, flowers do not normally set fruit. Fruit a dull-red berry, 15 mm in diameter, with several thousand tiny seeds in the soft pulp.