Wax petal flower

Wax petal flower

(records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang)

[synonym] lianhemei and lianhezi (records of yam plants in Tianmu, Zhejiang Province).

[source] it is the root bark of the Hamamelidaceae.

[plant morphology] Chinese wax petal flower

Shrubs or small trees. Branchlets pilose. Leaves ovate or obovate, 5-9 cm long, 3-6 cm wide, apex short pointed or slightly obtuse, base obliquely cordate, margin sharply serrate, with stellate hairs below; petiolate. Raceme 3-5 cm long, drooping, first leaves open, each flower base has a large ovate bract; pedicel very short; calyx tube with stellate hair, calyx teeth 5, glabrous; petals 5, yellow, spoon shaped, 5-6 mm long; stamens 5, staminodes 2-cleft; ovary 2-locular, each with 1 drooping ovule, style 2. Capsule ovoid, 7-8 mm wide, hairy, two petals dehiscent.

It grows in the broad-leaved forest on the moist and fertile hillside. Distribution in Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, Anhui and other places.

[collection] all year round.

[chemical constituents] the leaves of corylopsis contain quercetin.

[function and indications] records of Zhejiang Tianmu yam plant: "it is used to treat wind snake falling abdomen. "

[optional prescription] it is used to treat febrile fever, fever is not very high, nausea, heart beating, confusion and coma (commonly known as wind snake falling belly disease): dry wax petal root skin three Liang, Agrimonia pilosula, hard lacquer wood (Hamamelidaceae? Wood) root or leaf each four to five Qian, Cordyceps, early bamboo leaf each three to four Qian, three pieces of ginger, fried in water, sooner or later, before meals. (records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang)

Chinese PinYin : La Ban Hua