Acanthopanax giraldii Baile

Chinese Name: Wujiapi Baile

[category]: leather

Acanthopanax trifoliate root bark

[alias]: Liriodendron chinense, acanthopanax trifoliate and acanthopanax senticosus.

[source]: the root bark of Acanthopanax trifoliatus (L.) Merr.

[harvesting]: the roots are dug in summer and autumn, washed, peeled and dried.

[flavor]:

[plant morphology]: climbing shrub, 1-7m high, sparsely branched with downward barbs. The leaves are palmately compound, with 3 leaflets and few 4-5 leaflets. The central one is larger, elliptic ovate to oblong elliptic, 2-8 cm long and 1.5-4 cm wide. The apex is pointed or short acuminate, the base is cuneate, the edge is serrate, both sides are glabrous or only sparsely ciliated along the vein. The total petiole is 2-5 cm long and sparsely uncinate. Umbels 3-10 on top of branchlets, rarely solitary, calyx 5-toothed; petals 5, yellowish green; stamens 5; ovary 2-locular, style 2, connate to middle. The fruit is oblate and black at maturity. The flowering period is August to September and the fruiting period is October.

[growing place]: on hillside, forest edge and shrub. It is distributed in the south slope of Qinling Mountains in the north, but in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the north boundary is about 31 ° n, and it is distributed in all parts of the south.

Chemical constituents: kaurenoicacid and β - sitosterol.

[function indications]: the same as Acanthopanax gracilis.

[note]: the root bark is irregular tubular, slightly curved and 0.5-1 mm thick. The outer surface is reddish brown, the lenticel is small, round or slightly extended transversely, 0.8-3.5mm in length and 0.5-1mm in diameter; the inner surface is grayish brown. There are brown punctate resin channels in the fracture section, and the bright yellowish brown oleoresin can be seen. The gas is slightly fragrant, and the taste is slightly pungent and bitter.

Chinese PinYin : Wu Jia Pi Bai Le