Posoqueria latifolia

Posoqueria latifolia, commonly known as needle-flower tree or monkey apple, is an evergreen shrub or small tree in the Rubiaceae family native to the neotropics, ranging from southern Mexico and the Caribbean through Central America to southern Brazil and Bolivia. Plants typically reach 3 to 10 metres in height with smooth grey bark and spreading branches. The leaves are opposite, elliptic to broadly ovate, leathery, glossy dark green above and paler beneath, with prominent venation and persistent interpetiolar stipules characteristic of the family. The inflorescence is a terminal cyme of strongly fragrant nocturnal flowers; each has an exceptionally long, slender white corolla tube up to 15 centimetres long flaring into five short lobes, an adaptation for pollination by hawkmoths and bats. The fruit is a large globose to ovoid yellow berry containing many seeds embedded in pulp eaten by primates and other mammals, which serve as dispersers.