The painting depicts the bright red mature fruit of the ‘female’ (mima) variety of bodii tree, one of the artist’s totems. The bright red fruits are represented by the three pairs of black roundels positioned at the top, centre and bottom of the design respectively. Two large black ovoid forms in the centre of the bark represent the tree’s trunk, and two serpentine white lines that wind around the fruit and trunk are the branches from which the fruit hang.