Skirting board

Skirting board

(Emei medicine plant)

[source] it is the leaf of Corallium Myrtle.

[plant morphology] peach leaf coral (history of runanpu), also known as Zhinan tree (questioning materia medica).

Evergreen shrub with stem height of 1-3m. Leaves opposite, lanceolate or obovate, 8-20 cm long, apex long and acuminate, entire or dentate in front half, base cuneate, bright green above, yellow spotted, stipitate. Flowers unisexual, dioecious; terminal panicle, sparsely setose; pedicel short, bracteoles 2; calyx small, 4-toothed; petals 4, purplish, ovate to lanceolate, apex long and pointed, tweezers shaped; male flowers have stamens 4 and central disc of tetragonal shape, ovary degenerate, filaments short; female flowers have ovary inferior, 1-locular, ovule 1, style short and thick, with irregular stigma, without stigma stamen. Berry shaped drupe, red at maturity, elliptic, 2 cm long; seed apex with very fine embryo. It blooms in spring.

Often planted in the garden. It is distributed in Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Fujian, Guangdong and Taiwan.

The fruit of this plant (Castanopsis chinensis) is also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[functions and indications] illustrated books of Chinese medicine: "smash fresh leaves into mud, apply abrasions, scalds caused by water and fire, and hemorrhoids. "