Rhododendron fruit

[name] D ù Ju ā n Hu ā Gu Sh í. [alias] Yingshan red [source] Medicine source: to Rhododendron Rhododendron fruit. Latin plant animal mineral name: Rhododendron simsii Planch.[R Sweet var.simsii Maxim in－dicum; R.indicum (L.) Sweet var.Ignescens Sweet] Harvesting and storage: the recovery of 8-10 month fruit is ripe, dried in the sun. The original form [] deciduous or semi evergreen shrub, high 2-5m. Much branched, young branchlets densely red brown or brown and compressed strigose, old branches grayish yellow, glabrous, bark diastema. Flower buds ovate, the middle part of the back is brown strigose, margin ciliate. Ye Erxing; spring leaves papery, short summer long, leathery, ovate elliptic, or ovate lanceolate, 3-6cm long, 2-3cm wide, apex acute, with mucro, base cuneate, entire, surface sparsely covered with reddish brown strigose, abaxially densely brown strigose, veins more many. Flowers 2-6, umbels, fascicled branch end; pedicels ca. 5-8mm; calyx deeply 5 - lobed, lobes ovate to lanceolate, long 3-7mm, outside densely strigose and eyelashes; corolla broadly funnelform, rose - pink, purple, long 3-5cm, 5 - lobed, lobes obovate, above 1 flap and nearly 2 flap with deep red spots; stamens 10, dilute 7-9, filaments puberulent in lower part, anthers purple; ovary ovoid, room 5, long 5-8mm, densely long flat hairy, styles slender. Capsule ovoid, 1-1.2cm long, densely brown strigose, persistent calyx. Florescence 4-6 month, month of fruit period 7-9. [distribution] Ecological environment: born in hilly or flat, sparsely shrubs. Resource distribution: distribution in the Yangtze River and South East of Taiwan, around, West to Sichuan, Yunnan. [taste] Gan Xin; temperature; [indications] pain blood. The main traumatic swelling [usage] oral: grind end, 1-2g. [] excerpts from "Chinese Materia Medica" http://chinese-herbal-medicines-directory.blogspot.com/