Maesa chisia D.Don

A shrub. It is 1-2 m tall. Sometimes it grows to 6 m. The branches are angular and brown and scaly. The pith is solid. The leaf stalk is 0.7-1.5 cm long. The leaf blade is oblong and 8.5-14 cm long by 2.5-5.5 cm wide. It is papery. The base is wedge shaped and there are teeth along the edge. The veins are raised underneath the leaf. There are about 10 side veins each side of the main vein. The flowering stalks occur in the axils of leaves on second year branches. They are 1.5-4 cm long. The fruit is round and 3-4 mm across. They are somewhat fleshy.

A subtropical plant. They grow in sparse forests and shrubby areas on warm sunny hillsides between 600-2200 m altitude in S China. In Yunnan.

The ripe fruit are eaten. The young shoots and leaves are cooked and eaten as a vegetable.