Botany
Tree growing up to 20 meters high. Leaves are groups of 3 leaflets, elliptic, with pointed tips and round bases. The flowers are in greenish or yellowish clusters. Fruits are rounded, yellowish-orange when ripe with a thick pericarp, with seeds surrounded by a sweet tasting edible pulp.

Insert
Santo fruit buds and flowers.

Chemical constituents and properties
Roots is aromatic, carminative, antispasmodic, astringent, stomachic.
High in carbohydrates, fair in iron, but low in calcium.
Fair source of vitamin B.
Bark contains traces of a bitter principle, a toxic alkaloid.
Seed contains an amorphous bitter principle.
Bark also contains a bitter substancek, sandoricum acid, similar to acids found in Chisocheton, dysoxylum, heynea and carapa.

Distribution
Found in secondary forests, planted or semicultivated.

Parts used
.Roots, bark, and leaves.

Uses:
Folkloric
Decoction or infusion of leaves used for baths to reduce fever.
Also, used for diarrhea and as a tonic after childbirth.
Bark poultice used for ringworm.
Bitter roots, bruised with vinegar and water, is a carminative; used for diarrhea and dysentery.
Pounded barks applied to ringworm.
Roots used as tonic.
Others
Santol makes a delicious preserve.

Availability
Wild-crafted.
Cultivated for its fruit.