Aphananthe aspera

Aphananthe aspera

(records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang)

[synonym] ox tendon tree.

[source] the root bark and bark of Ulmaceae.

Rough leaf tree

Deciduous trees, up to 20 meters high. The bark is yellowish brown with gray spots and wrinkles. It splits longitudinally when it grows old. The young branches are covered with flat bristles and fall off later. The leaves are simple, alternate, ovate or narrowly ovate, 5-13 cm long and 3-8 cm wide, apex acuminate, base rounded or broadly cuneate, single serrate above base, strigose on both sides, lateral veins extending to serrate margin; petiole 7-13 mm long; stipules linear. Flowers unisexual, monoecious; male flowers in corymbs, in axils of basal new branches; female flowers solitary, in axils of upper new branches, pedunculate; perianth 5-lobed, persistent; stamens with the same number of branches; ovary hairy, 1-locular, stigma 2. Drupe subglobose or ovoid, 8-10 mm long, hirsute; stipe short. The flowering period is from April to May. The fruit period is from August to October.

He was born on the roadside and by the river. It is distributed in East China, central China, South China, Southwest China and Shanxi.

[function indications] it is used to treat the pain of waist injury.

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 7-8 yuan.