Maesa chisia - Chisia Wild Berry

Chisia Wild Berry is a shrub 1-2 m tall, with branchlets angular, sparsely brown scaly, becoming hairless, warty; pith solid. Flowers are borne in leaf-axils on biennial branches, in branched racemes, 1.5-4 cm in fruit. Flowers are white, with 5 ovate-triangular petals which are curled back, with 5 stamens protruding out. Flower-stalks are 1-2 mm in fruit, hairless. Bracts lanceshaped, about 0.5 mm; bracteoles ovate, hairless. Leaf-stalks are slightly channeled, 0.7-1.5 cm; leaves oblong, elliptic-lanceshaped, to inverted-lanceshaped, 8.5-14 x 2.5-5.5 cm, papery, hairless, base wedge-shaped, margin sawtoothed, densely and minutely orange dotted-lineate, tip with a tail-tapering, acumen 0.8-2 cm; midrib and lateral veins prominently raised below, lateral veins about 10 on each side of midrib, ending in teeth, submarginal vein absent. Fruits are white, spongy, juicy, spherical, 3-4 mm in diameter, hairless; persistent sepals ovate-triangular, hairless, dotted at tip, fringed with hairs. Chisia Wild Berry is found in from Nepal to East Himalaya, Myanmar to China South-Central, at altitudes of 600-2200 m. Flowering: January-February.