Pen Luo Zi

Pen Luo Zi

(Hunan folk medicine materials)

[synonym] wild loquat (Chinese tree taxonomy), coarse bran firewood, flowers and trees fragrant (Chinese economic flora), mountain loquat, maobiliang (Hunan folk medicine materials).

[source] it is the fruit of bilberry, a lianaceae plant.

[plant morphology] biluozi

Small evergreen trees, about 10 m high. Trunk straight, skin gray brown; twigs thick, dense rust color pilose. Leaves alternate, leathery, oblanceolate or elliptic, 8-25 cm long and 3-5 cm wide, apex pointed or obtuse, base cuneate, entire or upper sparsely serrate, hairy when tender on top, rusty tomentose below, lateral veins visible on back; petiole 2.5-3 cm long, short hairy. Panicle terminal, rusty pilose; flowers small, white; sepals 5; petals 5; stamens 5. Drupe subglobose, base oblique, 5-8 mm in diameter, calyx persistent. The flowering period is from May to June. The fruiting period is August.

It grows on hillside, stream side, forest edge, broad-leaved mixed forest and shrub. Distributed in Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan and other places.

[chemical composition] tannins in bark and leaves were 16.0% and 5.7% respectively.

[function and indications] Hunan folk medicine materials: "cough, cold, pain relief. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 2-3 yuan.

Chinese PinYin : Bi Luo Zi