Habit: Ximenia americana grows as a large shrub to small tree up to 8 m in height (usually smaller) often with spines and reddish smooth bark. The leaves are arranged alternately to 4 cm in length (usually smaller), oblong to ovate/elliptic/oblanceolate with a rounded or mucronate leaf apex. The leaf margin is entire.
The complete, perfect, actinomorphic, flowers are arranged in groups of few flowered umbels or cymes, arising in the axils of leaves. The calyx has 4, minute sepals. The corolla has 4, white to yellow fused, with densely petals with and reflexed lobes and pubescence interiorly. There are 8, unfused stamens. The ovary is superior with 4 locules and ovules. The fruit is a yellow to orange drupe at maturity.
Habitat: Ximenia americana grows in open Dunes and coastal sandy Dry Broadleaf Evergreen Formation – Shrublands.
Distribution: Ximenia americana occurs throughout the island groupings in the Lucayan Archipelago as well as the Caribbean region and other tropical and subtropical regions of the world.
Medicinal/Cultural/Economic usage Ximenia americana is not known to be used medicinally in the Bahamas.
The fruits are edible.