Tree

[ alias ] six hornbeam, Lai wood, chicken gizzard skin, black teeth tree, umbrella tree, cat cat
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: Cornaceae plant tree bark or root bark, leaf.
Latin animal mineral name: Bothocaryum controuersum ( Hemsl. ) Pljark.[Cornus controuersa Hemsl.]
Harvest and storage: bark or root bark colonization10 years harvest. Growth period is longer, thicker cortex, yield is high, the quality is better. 5-6 month, stripping the bark and root bark, dried. Ye Yinian the four seasons can be harvested, dried or fresh standby.
[ ] the original morphology of deciduous trees, tall 6-15m. Bark dark gray; branches purple, glabrous. Ye Husheng2-6.5cm; petiole long; leaf blade broadly ovate or broadly elliptic, long 6-13cm, wide 3.5-9cm, apex acuminate, base rounded, dark green above, below, ash green, sparsely appressed pubescent; lateral veins 6-7 pairs. Corymbose cymes terminal, slightly is appressed pubescent; flowers are small, white; calyx teeth triangular; petals 4, long lanceolate; stamens 4, extend,4-5mm long, glabrous; ovary inferior, obovoid, densely gray appressed pubescent. Drupe globose, red and black, the diameter of 6-7mm. Florescence 5-6 month, month of fruit period 7-8.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in elevation of 250-2600m evergreen broadleaf forest or needle and broad-leaved mixed forest in.
Resource distribution: located in Liaoning, Hebei, Shaanxi, Gansu, Shandong, Anhui, Taiwan, Henan, Guangdong, Guangxi etc..
[ ] cultivation
Biological characteristics like mild, cool wet climate. Be afraid of high temperature, cold resistance. In the deep layer, containing humic rich and well-drained loam soil cultivation is appropriate.
Cultivation techniques for seed reproduction. 8-9 month harvest ripe fruit, removing peel and pulp, the seed dry wash. With the mining sowing, also in the spring. Before sowing, with sand bar for scratch coat. According to a spacing of30cm ditching, the seeds are uniformly scattered into the trench, covered with fine soil3cm, water moisture. 1 years after seedling, seedling height30cm above, choose the rainy weather colonization. According to the spacing3M ×3M open pits, each pit planted1 strains.
Field management sapling growth slow, should strengthen cradle, the annual spring and summer3-4months5-6 months were weeding, combined fertilization. Cut off the roots of winter shoot and the lower part of the crown over densely branched, promote the growth of main stem.
[ ] taste slightly bitter taste; cool
[ ] clearing heat and calming the liver functions; swelling and pain. Primary headache; vertigo; sore throat; joint pain; traumatic swelling and pain
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,6-15g; or at the end of the inquiry; or leach liquor. External: amount, trace and apply.

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