The mucilaginous fruits are eaten by bears also. Cattle feed on the leaves. Wood is used as fuel and for the construction of houses. Bark is used as a paint brush for white washing houses. Birds like to nest in this tree.

ഫലങ്ങൾ ഭക്ഷ്യയോഗ്യം തടിയിൽ നിന്ന് ചായം ഉത്പാദിപ്പിക്കപ്പെടുന്നു. വിത്തിന് ഔഷധമൂല്യമുണ്ട്.

Deciduous trees, to 15 m high, bark brown to brownish-black, corky; branchlets densely pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate; petiole 30-50 mm long, slender, glabrous; lamina 6-17 x 5-15 cm, ovate or orbicular, base cordate or truncate, apex subacute, acute or obtuse; margin entire, glabrescent above and woolly beneath, membranous; nerves 3-5 from base, palmate, prominent, lateral nerves 3-5 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae scalariform, prominent. Flowers polygamous, creamy white in lax terminal corymbose cymes, 8 x 8 cm; calyx 9 mm long, irregularly splitting into 5 lobes; lobes ovate, acute, hairy; corolla 15 mm long, lobes 6, oblong, acute; stamens 6; filaments villous at base; ovary superior, 2.5 mm; style 7 mm, 4-branched. Fruit a drupe, 2 x 2 cm, depressed-globose, yellow, shining.