Paramita is a tropical tree species with fruits, woody grains and precious wood. Fast growth, beautiful appearance and high fruit yield. The fruit is very big, 15-20kg, and generally weighs 7.5- 10kg, so it is known as the king of fruits. The wrapped meat of mature fruit is rich in sugar and vitamin C, and it is a sweet and excellent fruit. It can also be used to prepare drinks, or to make dried fruits, canned foods and brewed fruits. Kernel accounts for 15-30% of the total weight of fruit, with high starch content, and tastes like chestnuts when fried or boiled.
Evergreen trees with height 10-20m and DBH 30-50cm; Old trees often have slab roots; The bark is thick and dark brown; Branchlets 2-6 mm thick, longitudinally creped to smooth, glabrous; Stipules hold stems in a ring shape with obvious scars. Leaves are leathery, spirally arranged, ovoid or obovate, 7- 15 cm long or longer, 3-7 cm wide, blunt or tapering at the top, wedge-shaped at the base, fully mature leaves, or leaves on young trees and sprouting branches are often divided, with dark green surface, light green or light brown after drying, hairless and shiny, light green at the back and slightly rough, and mesophyll cells. Petiole length 1-3 cm; Stipules clasping stems, ovoid, long 1.5-8 cm, externally appressed or glabrous, falling off.
Flowers are monoecious, and inflorescences are born on old stems or short branches. Male inflorescences are sometimes born in axillary branches or axillary branches. Cylindrical or rod-shaped oval, 2-7 cm long, with many flowers and underdeveloped parts, with a total pedicel length of 10-50 mm; The perianth of the male flower is tubular, long 1- 1.5 mm, 2-lobed at the upper part, puberulent, stamens 1, filaments standing upright in the bud, anthers oval, without degenerated pistil; The perianth of female flower is tubular, with teeth at the top, and the base is trapped in the axis of fleshy spherical inflorescence. Ovary 1. Chrysanthemum fruit is oval to spherical or irregular, with a length of 30- 100 cm and a diameter of 25-50 cm. It is light yellow when it is young and yellowish brown when it is mature, with hard hexagonal nodular protrusions and coarse hairs on its surface. Drupe is oval, about 3 cm long and 1.5-2 cm in diameter. Flowering in February-March.