Hanging lantern

Hanging lantern

(records of Guangxi Traditional Chinese Medicine)

White leeward.

[source] it is the branch and leaf of Pittosporum liangguangense.

[plant morphology] Pittosporum cantonensis

Evergreen shrubs, up to 2 m high. Stem erect, much branched, bark gray brown, sparse round punctate lenticels. Leaves alternate, often whorled on branchlets, elliptic lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, 5-16 cm long and 2.5-5 cm wide, glabrous, apex acute, sometimes inclined to one side, base cuneate, entire; leaf pegs 0.5-1 cm long, ventrally deeply furrowed. Several flowers gather in the axils of branches, petiole 4-8 mm long, calyx 5, ovate, about 2 mm long, base connate, margin hairy; corolla yellow, about 1 cm long, tubular, 5-lobed, lobes ovate, involute outward; stamen 5, concealed; pistil is composed of 3 or 4 carpels, style short, simple 1, stigma small, undivided, ovary stipitate, superior. Capsule obovate, usually triangular, with several seeds. The flowering period is from February to April. The fruit period is from May to June.

Born under the sparse forest on the hillside.

[collection] the branches and leaves were picked and dried in summer. Or use fresh products temporarily.

[functions and indications] Shufeng was published. Make bath medicine, treat cold. It can also cure dysentery.