Paeonia suffruticosa

Paeonia suffruticosa

(records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang)

[synonym] Akebia, Clematis macrophylla (economic plant manual), herbaceous female wilt, herbaceous peony (Zhejiang Tianmu yam flora).

[source] the root or stem of Clematis macrophylla (Ranunculaceae).

[plant morphology] Clematis macrophylla

Deciduous subshrub, up to about 1 meter high. The root is thick and long, light yellow brown. Stem erect or recumbent, longitudinally ribbed, covered with white short hairs, old stem glabrous. The terminal leaflets are broadly ovate, the lateral leaflets are obliquely ovate and smaller, 6-15 cm in length and 3.5-8.5 cm in width, 2-3-lobed, apex acute, base broadly cuneate, margin with irregular coarse teeth, teeth pointed, both sides covered with white pubescence, especially dense below. Panicles terminal and axillary, flowers heteroecious or dioecious; calyx tubular, ca. 1.5 cm long, sepals 4, apex reflexed outward, ca. 2 cm long, blue, covered with white silky hairs, apetalous; stamens numerous, filaments pubescent; carpels numerous, separated. Achene ovate with persistent short pinnate style. The flowering period is from August to September. The fruit period is from September to October.

It grows in the mixed forest on the high hillside. It is distributed in East China, North China and Northeast China.

[function and indications] records of Zhejiang Tianmu yam planting: "treating hand foot joint gout. Three catties of peony vine, finely cut, one or two red and one or two white Achyranthes bidentata, two liang of zugdifeng (Acanthopanax senticosus), half catties of Acanthopanax cortex, half catties of brown sugar and half catties of red jujube, immersed in ten catties of Shaojiu, sealed for a month, take them once a day in the morning and before dinner. "