Perfume tower flower

Perfume tower flower

(selected prescriptions of Wuzhou herbal medicine and common diseases)

[synonym] shuitahua (flora of Guangzhou) and mercury Polo (list of medicinal plants in Guangxi).

[source] it is the leaf of pineapple.

[plant morphology] hongbaofeng pear

Perennial herbs. No stem. Leaves convolute or clustered, 6-15, sessile, broadly lanceolate, 30-45 cm long and 4 cm wide, erect or slightly cambered, apex obtuse and slightly acute, base broad, covered with powdery scales and spikelets. Spikes erect, slightly longer than leaves; bracts lanceolate to elliptic lanceolate, 5-7 cm long, pink; calyx covered with pink, dark red, lobes obtuse to apical; corolla about 4 cm long, blue, red or greenish yellow; petals base with tearing tongue 2; ovary inferior, style 3-lobed. Berry, with many seeds. It blooms in spring.

Most of them are cultivated in Guangxi and Guangdong.

[collection] all year round.

[function indications] selected prescriptions of Wuzhou herbal medicine and common diseases: "cool, disperse toxin, detumescence and discharge pus. Treatment of carbuncle, abscess and abscess by tamping fresh leaves. "

Chinese PinYin : Xiang Shui Ta Hua