Tetradium daniellii is a deciduous tree with smooth, grey bark and a rounded, spreading, umbrella-shaped habit on a shortish trunk.
Foliage consists of opposite, pinnately compound leaves each with 7-11 ovate glossy dark green leaflets.
It produces small, white, fragrant flowers in flattened corymbs in mid summer that are very attractive to bees, hence it's common name.
The flowers mature to reddish-purple seed pods that make an attractive sight in later summer. They split open when ripe to reveal two, shiny, buckshot-like, black seeds - which in turn are attractive to birds.