Habitat: tropics, coastal areas.
Content: lignanes.
Use: fishing rods, fish net floats, wooden sandals, fan handles, drawing boards, canoe accessories, furniture and firewood.
Botany:Tree.
Leaves: narrowly or broadly ovate or subcircular.
Flowers: white or greenish; fragrant odour; hermaphrodite, male and female are separated.
Fruit: fleshy, waxy red or white.