Jam Tree is a fast growing tree, 5 to 10 meters high, with spreading branches. Leaves are hairy, sticky, alternate, distichous, oblong-ovate to broadly oblong-lanceolate, 8 to 13 centimeters long, with toothed margins, pointed apex and inequilateral base, one side rounded and the other acute. Flowers are about 2 centimeters in diameter, white, extra-axillary, solitary or in pairs. Sepals are 5, green, reflexed, lanceolate, about 1 centimeter long. Petals are white, obovate, 1 centimeter long, deciduous and spreading. Fruit is a berry, rounded, about 1.5 centimeter in diameter, red on ripening, smooth, fleshy, sweet and many seeded.

Fruits processed into jam; leaves used for making tea. Flowers are antispasmodic. Decoction of flowers for abdominal cramps. Bark used for making rope. Wood is compact, fine-grained, moderately strong and light in weight and durable, used for carpentry work. Leaves used as antiseptics or antipruritic; also, to treat abdominal cram.