Rapidly growing tree, up to two or three meters per year, up from 3 to 15m tall with a trunk diameter of 50cm.[4] Its bark’s color ranges from grey to brown and it has a rough texture. The stems are usually tomentose when young, after the third year glabrescent, produce a white latex, as well as wood of the whole tree.[6] Leaf blades are entire, from 9 to 19cm long and 6 to 9cm wide, with 12 to 19 pairs of lateral veins. Leaves are ovate to lanceolate, cordate at the base and acuminate at the apex, pubescent especially beneath and on the veins of the lower surface; by maturing, hairs remain only on the veins and along the margin