Editing Couma macrocarpa (section)

== Description ==

The species is an evergreen tree recorded at about 8–22 m in a Manaus botanical study; a broader specialist account gives about 12–28 m and notes that taller trees occur. It is associated with humid lowland or terra-firme forest on clayey or sandy soils. The bark is rough and the tree produces abundant white latex. <sup>[[#cite_note-2|[2]]]</sup> <sup>[[#cite_note-3|[3]]]</sup>

The fruit is a rounded berry with sweet, edible pulp and flattened ellipsoid seeds. The specialist account describes a yellow-green fruit of roughly 6 cm with a few seeds; fruit size and ripening varied among trees in the Colombian germplasm observations, so that measurement should not be treated as a fixed value for every tree. <sup>[[#cite_note-2|[2]]]</sup> <sup id="cite_ref-4">[[#cite_note-4|[4]]]</sup>