Populus deltoides

Populus deltoides

(records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang)

[synonym] fengxiangshu, tuanye poplar (Chinese tree taxonomy), poplar (Zhejiang Tianmu yam flora).

[source] it is the root bark, bark or leaf of Populus tomentosa.

[plant morphology] Populus tomentosa

Arbor, 15-30 m high. Twigs brown, pilose. The leaves on the long branch are ovate, 7-10 cm long and 5-10 cm wide, the base is truncated, cordate, with two glands, the apex is acuminate, the margin is serrate, with glands bent in, at least gray hairs on the back of the leaves when young; the leaves on the short branch are ovate or oval, 5-8 cm long, and the petiole is 1.5-3 (~ 6) cm long. Flowers unisexual, dioecious; catkin; male inflorescence 6-12 cm long, bract deeply split, margin with long cilia, stamens 7-9, anthers red, disk pedunculate, cup-shaped. The inflorescence is 12-16 cm long, and the capsule is elliptic with short stalk. The flowering period is March. The fruiting period is April.

It grows in shrub or forest margin on sunny slope. It is distributed in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Guizhou, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Yunnan, etc.

[function indications] "Zhejiang Tianmu yam plant records": "treat wind obstruction, limb failure, dry bark (to coarse skin) five money, wine steaming service. Treatment of dental caries, leaf, water decoction gargle. For the treatment of blood stasis, swelling and pain, add the same amount of Sophora flavescens and Ampelopsis root to the root skin, and mash with distiller's grains. "