Hawthorn wild hawthorn

Chinese Name: Hawthorn wild hawthorn

[category]: fruits

English Name: Nippon Hawthornfruit

[alias]: South hawthorn, small leaf hawthorn, red fruit.

[source]: hawthorn, a Rosaceae plant CrataeguscuneatsSieb.EtZucc The fruit of.

[harvest]: harvest the fruits in autumn when they are ripe, and then heat them in boiling water for drying or direct drying.

[nature and taste]: the same as hawthorn.

[plant morphology]: deciduous shrub. Branches dense, spiny, young branches pilose. Leaves obovate, 2-6cm long, 0.8-2.5cm wide, apex often 3-lobed, base narrowly cuneate, extending down to stalk, margin sharply double serrated. Corymb, pedicel and pedicel are pilose, flowers white. The pear fruit is spherical or pear shaped, red or yellow, about 1-2cm in diameter. The persistent calyx is larger and reflexed. The flowering period is from May to June and the fruiting period is from August to October.

[growing place]: it grows on the hillside or mountain shrub in Xiangyang, mainly in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Yunnan and Sichuan.

[chemical composition]: it contains chlorogenic acid, caffeic acid, crataegolic acid, oleanolic acid, quercetin, hyperin, epicatechin, etc.

[function indications]: the same as hawthorn.

[note]: the fruit is small, spherical, 0.8-1.4cm in diameter, some pressed into a cake. The surface is brown to brownish red with fine wrinkles, the top is sunken, there is calyx residue, and the base has fruit stalk or has fallen off. The fruit is hard in quality, thin in flesh and slightly sour in taste.