High Quality Dogwood flesh

Dogwood deciduous trees or shrubs; Bark gray-brown; twigs Terete, glabrous. Leaves opposite, papery, green above, glabrous, Pale Green below; Petiole slender-terete, shallowly furrowed above, rounded below. Umbels borne on lateral branches, involucral bracts ovate, purplish; pedicel Stout, grayish pubescent; flowers small, bisexual, opening at apex; Calyx Broad Triangular, glabrous; Petals ligulate-lanceolate, Yellow, revolute outward; stamens alternate to petals, filaments subulate, anthers elliptic; Disk Glabrous; pedicel slender. Drupe Long Elliptic, red to purple-red; Drupe Bony, narrowly elliptic, with a few irregular ribs. Flowering 3-4 months; fruiting 9-10 months. Production in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan, Hunan and other provinces. North Korea and Japan are also distributed. Born in 400-1500 meters above sea level, up to 2100 meters of forest edge or forest. There are introduction and cultivation in Sichuan. The fruit of this species (including Cornus Chinensis) is called "Dogwood Flesh" , commonly known as jujube skin, for medicinal purposes, sour taste, mild temperature, astringent strong medicine, with liver and kidney antiperspirant effect.

Deciduous trees or shrubs, 4-10 m tall; Bark gray-brown; branchlets Terete, glabrous or sparsely adnate pubescent winter buds terminal and axillary, ovate to Lanceolate, Yellowish Brown pubescent. Leaves opposite, papery, ovate-lanceolate or ovate-elliptic, 5.5-10 cm long, 2.5-4.5 cm wide, apex acuminate, base broadly cuneate or suborbicular, entire, above green, glabrous, below Pale Green, sparsely white adnate pubescent, veins densely densely Brownish tufted, midrib conspicuous above, raised below, subglabrous, lateral veins 6-7 pairs, arcuate-incurved; Petiole slender-terete, 0.6-1.2 cm long, shallowly sulcate above, rounded below, slightly adnate to sparsely pilose. Umbels borne on lateral branches, with involucral bracts 4, ovate, thickly papery to leathery, Ca. 8 mm long, purplish, both sides slightly pubescent, glabrescent after anthesis; CALYX lobes 4, broadly triangular, as long as or slightly longer than disk, Ca. 0.6 mm, glabrous; Petals 4, ligulate-lanceolate, 3.3 mm long, yellow, revolute outward; Stamens 4, alternate with petals, 1.8 mm long, filaments subulate, anthers elliptic, 2-loculed; Disk cushion-shaped, glabrous; ovary inferior, receptacle Obovate, Ca. 1 mm, densely adnate sparsely pilose, style terete, 1.5 mm long, stigma truncate; pedicel slender, 0.5-1 cm long, densely sparsely pilose. Drupes Oblong, 1.2-1.7 cm long, 5-7 mm in diameter, red to purplish red; Drupes Bony, narrowly ellipsoid, ca. 12 mm long, with several irregular ribs. Flowering 3-4 months; fruiting 9-10 months.

The main effect is tonifying the liver and kidney, astringent solid off. For Vertigo Tinnitus, lumbar and knee pain, impotence spermatorrhea, enuresis frequency, Metrorrhagia and Metrostaxis, internal heat xiaoke.