Editing Choerospondias axillaris (section)

== Description ==

[[File:Choerospondias axillaris (Anacardiaceae) at Sim's Park, Coonoor.JPG|220px|right|''Choerospondias axillaris'' at Sim's Park, Coonoor, India]]

The tree is fast-growing, light-demanding and deciduous, reaching about 20 m in horticultural accounts and to 25 m with a trunk to about 50 cm diameter in Thai forest material.<sup id="cite_ref-4">[[#cite_note-4|[4]]]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-5">[[#cite_note-5|[5]]]</sup> The bark is greyish-brown and exudes a sticky, colourless resin that blackens on exposure. Leaves are imparipinnate, 30–40 cm long with four to fifteen pairs of leaflets, and turn red before falling.<sup>[[#cite_note-4|[4]]]</sup> The boiled young leaves are edible, a use recorded from northern Thailand.<sup>[[#cite_note-5|[5]]]</sup>

Flowers are small (0.3–0.5 cm), yellowish or red, in terminal or axillary panicles on male trees and in racemes on female trees; the species is mostly dioecious, with occasional bisexual flowers.<sup>[[#cite_note-4|[4]]]</sup> Nepali growers call the pistillate trees pothi lapsi (flowers with empty anthers) and the staminate trees bhale lapsi (flowers without a gynoecium).<sup id="cite_ref-6">[[#cite_note-6|[6]]]</sup>

The fruit is a fleshy ovoid drupe with a single hard pyrene marked with four to five depressions, each holding a flattened brown seed.<sup>[[#cite_note-5|[5]]]</sup> In measured Thai material drupes averaged 25.3 × 22.4 × 22.6 mm and ripened from grey-green to yellow; a Vietnamese description records a red drupe about 1.5 × 2.5 cm with acidic edible flesh and five apical pores on the stone, so colour and size vary with provenance.<sup>[[#cite_note-4|[4]]]</sup><sup>[[#cite_note-5|[5]]]</sup> Japanese plants are sometimes separated as ''Choerospondias axillaris'' var. japonica.<sup>[[#cite_note-4|[4]]]</sup>