Magnolia

Magnolia

(common folk herbs in Kunming)

Another name: parchment bag and Gardenia jasminoides Ellis.

[source] it is the flower of Magnoliaceae.

[plant morphology] sachet fragrance

Evergreen shrub, 2-4m high. Young branches densely rusty tomentose. Leaves alternate, leathery, ovate to obovate elliptic, 4-8 m long, 1.5-3 cm wide, apex acute or obtuse, base cuneate, entire, yellowish green above, glabrous below, with brown hairs gradually falling off, midrib protruding below; petiole 4-5 mm long. Flowers solitary in leaf axils, fragrant; buds covered with brown hairs; pedicels short; perianth segments 6, white, obovate, arranged in 2 rings; stamens numerous, 1 cm long; aggregate fruit short; very? Brown; seeds 1-2, with pseudotesta, hanging on filamentous petiole at maturity without shedding. It blooms in spring.

It is common under the forests of Chinese fir and Pinus yunnanensis, and in the shrubbery of acid red soil zone. It is distributed in Yunnan.

[collection] the flowers were harvested in spring and dried in the sun.

[flavor] cool, astringent and slightly bitter.

[function indications] anti inflammatory, heat clearing. For laryngitis, rhinitis and ophthalmitis.

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan.