Miconia argentea Dc.

Tall shrub or tree to 15 m. tall, the younger stems, petioles, lower leaf-surface, panicle, and hypanthia thinly but completely canescent with stellate hairs; younger stems strongly flattened and two-edged; petioles stout, 2-6 cm. long; leaf-blades firm, broadly elliptic, up to 25 cm. long, about half as wide, abruptly short-acuminate, entire or denticulate, obtuse to-rounded at base, 5-nerved, glabrous above; panicle widely branched, 1-2 dm. long; flowers sessile, 5-merous; hypan-thium obconic, about 2 mm. long; calyx almost truncate, the obscure lobes 0.2 mm. long; petals inequilateral, obovate-oblong, 3 mm. long; connective of the larger stamens prolonged at base into two small lateral lobes, that of the smaller stamens unlobed at base or with a minute dorsal lobe only; terminal pore large, as wide as the anther; stigma capitate.

Moist or wet thickets, most often on brushy hillsides or in ravines, sometimes in pine forest, at elevations from around sea level to about 500 metres, with some specimens found at elevations up to 1,500 metres.

The fruit can be eaten or fermented into wine.

Can be grown by seedlings.