Yellow mombin, jocote

This small tree grows 5 to 15 m tall. Its bark peels off in strips. Older trees have long vertical fissures on their trunks. The alternate leaves have 5 to 12 pairs of leaflets 12 to 22 cm long. The flowers are small and red. Its fleshy, red, plum-like fruit is 3 to 3.5 cm long and contains a single seed. It has acidic pulp.