Small tree, evergreen, hermaphrodite, up to 4(6) m in height, although frequently it has a shrubby bearing. Old stems with corky fissured and suberose bark, reminiscent of the bark of the oak, but whitish. It produces a very abundant milky latex. Young branches white-tomentose, covered with a dense tomentum of white hairs. Leaves opposite, almost sessile, entire margin and auriculate base, almost amplexicaule, leaf blade 9-15(20) \u00d7 5.5-10(15) cm, from oblong-obovate to broadly obovate and apex \u00b1 rounded or acute, generally acuminate; covered with cottony tomentum when young, then glabrescent, deep green on the upper side, with marked venation, puberulent-pubescent and greenish-whitish on the underside. Inflorescence in dense axillary cymes. Calyx divided to the base into 5 small sepals 4-6 \u00d7 3-4 mm, ovate, acute, whitish-pubescent on the outside. Corolla 2-2.5 cm wide, with 5 ovate-triangular petals, white on the outside, and on the inside white at the base and purple in the upper half. Nectariferous disc characteristically pentagonal, whitish-yellowish, with 5 \u00b1 purple stamens borne on its side. Fruit a large follicle (8-14 \u00d7 09.06 cm), subglobose, obliquely ovoid, with rounded apex, green, spongy, soft. Seeds (6-8 \u00d7 5-6 mm) ovoid, \u00b1 flat and with a pappus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-13248","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n