bougainvillea

bougainvillea

(common folk herbs in Kunming)

[synonyms] Baojin, fangdujuan, jiuchongge (flora of Guangzhou), triangle flower (common ornamental plant in North China), purple triangle and ziyalan (common folk herbs in Kunming).

[source] it is the flower of mirabiliaceae.

[plant morphology] cotyledons

Climbing shrubs. Stem stout, with axillary spines. Leaves alternate, papery, ovate or ovate lanceolate, 5-10 cm long and 3-6 cm wide, entire, apex acuminate, base cuneate, glabrous or puberulent below; petiole ca. 1 cm long. The flowers are terminal, usually 3 clustered in bracts, pedicel and midrib of bracts connate; bracts are 3, leaflike, dark red or purple, elliptic, 3-5cm long and 2-4cm wide, entire, papery; corolla tubular, light green, apex 5-toothed. Achenes 5-ribbed.

Native to Brazil; cultivated in China. The flowering period of Guangzhou was between winter and spring, and that of North China greenhouse was from March to July.

[collection] the flowers are collected when they bloom and dried in the sun.

[nature and taste] common folk herbs in Kunming: "bitter and astringent, warm. "

[function indications] common folk herbs in Kunming: "Regulating Qi and blood. Treatment of women with leucorrhea, irregular menstruation. "

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