Tree c.8-9m high with stout prickly trunk and flattish crown. Leaflets dark green above. Petals 6-7x1.8-2.6cm, ± regular oblong-oblanceolate, white in lower half with dark purple dashes, uniformly rose in upper half. Calyx thick, pinkish. Stamen cone c.1.5cm long; filaments pale yellow; anthers purple.