Saurauia brachybotrys Turcz.

A shrub or tree. It grows 15 m tall. The trunk is 25 cm across. The leaves are crowded behind the tips of the small branches. The leaves have teeth along the edge. They are 15-30 cm long by 8-15 cm wide. They are dark green above. The flowers are in groups of 50-200. The fruit are green with a reddish tinge and round to oval and 15 mm across.

Dense forest, residual forest, edge of forest, wooded ridgetop, thickets, along streams, secondary forest, brushy second growth slope, roadside, cornfield, meadow and open hillside, gardens, and wet mountain forest, at elevations of 1,500-2,500 m.

Can be grown by seedlings.