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Kadam is a large, tall, handsome, deciduous sometime evergreen or semi-evergreen tree, with a straight, cylindrical bole and a disciplined crown of horinzontal spreading branches which are more or less whorled. In its favourable habitat, it attains a height of about 20m with a clean bole of about 9 m and a girth of 1.5 to 2.0 m. The tree has generally a thin plank buttresses at the base. Bark is thick but smooth in young trees, becoming darker, exfoliating in longitudinal fissures in older trees. Foliage consists of 13 to 30 cm by 5 to 15 cm, elliptic- oblong, shining, opposite, simple leaves. Flowers are small, orange-coloured in dense terminal globose heads, 2.5-5 cm in diameter. The fruit, a pseudocarp is a globose, orange fleshy mass of closely packed capsules each containing a number of minute, angular seeds.