Yakal is a medium to large tree about 25 to 30 meters tall. Its wood is hard and dark brownish-yellow. Branchlets are rather slender, blackish, and slightly hairy. Leaves are coriaceous ...

Ephraim Cercado, a general surgeon by profession and a farmer by choice, walks slowly around a friend’s flowering yakal tree on a sunny ... because no one is focused on propagating them ...