Natural high quality Cortex Lycii

Alias Medlar Skin, for SOLANACEAE, medlar plants. Can Be used as medicine, with antipyretic except steaming effect, cooling blood in addition to steaming, Qingfei fire-lowering effect. They are found on hillsides, wasteland, hilly land, saline-alkali land, roadsides and houses near villages, and are distributed in northeast China, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, southern Gansu and southwest, central China, southern China and eastern China provinces; Korea, Japan, europe is cultivated or wild.

Many-branched shrubs, 0.5-1 m tall, growing to more than 2 m; branches slender, arcuate or drooping, Pale Gray, longitudinally striate, spines 0.5-2 cm long, leaves and flowers with longer spines, twigs acute to spiny tips. Leaves papery or cultivated with slightly thick, simple leaves alternate or 2-4 clustered, ovate, ovate-rhombic, oblong-elliptic, ovate-lanceolate, Apex Acute, base Cuneate, 1.5-5 cm long, 0.5-2.5 cm wide, larger for cultivation, may Be more than 10 cm long and 4 cm wide; Petiole 0.4-1 cm long. Flowers solitary or twin in leaf axils on long branches, fascicled on short branches; pedicels 1-2 cm long, tapering toward apex. Calyx 3-4 mm long, usually 3-cleft or 4-5-toothed, lobes more or less ciliate; Corolla funnelform, 9-12 mm long, Lilac, tube abruptly enlarged upward, slightly shorter than or nearly equal to limb lobes, 5-parted, lobes ovate, apex rounded obtuse, stamens slightly shorter than Corolla Lobes, or extended by extension of Corolla Lobes, filaments densely covered with a ring of hairs near base and interwoven into elliptic tufts, the inner wall of the Corolla Tube, as high as the tuft of hair, is also densely annulate-tomentose; the style extends slightly out of the Stamens, the upper end arched, and the stigma green. Berry red, ovate, cultivator can grow moment round or long elliptic, tip pointed or obtuse, 7-15 mm long, cultivator can reach 2.2 cm long, diameter 5-8 mm. Seeds oblate-reniform, 2.5-3 mm long, yellow. Florescence june-november.

Growing Environment: often born in the hillside, wasteland, hilly land, saline land, roadside and Village House next to. Grown on hillsides and in dry, sunny fields; cultivated. Love the light. The soil requirements are not strict, salt and Alkali Resistance, fertilizer resistance, drought resistance, fear of waterlogging. It is better to cultivate the neutral or slightly acidic light loam soil with good drainage, the salt content of saline-alkali soil can not exceed 0.2% , and it is not suitable to cultivate in the areas of strong alkalinity, clay loam soil, paddy field and marsh.

Function Indications: Cooling Blood in addition to steam, Qingfei fire. For Yin deficiency damp-heat, bone steaming night sweat, lung heat cough, hemoptysis, blood. Internal Heat slaking thirst.