Cornelian cherry (scientific name Tetradium ruticarpum, formerly known as Euodia ruticarpa), also known as Cornus officinalis, tea spicy, lacquer spice, stinking spice tree, ZuoLi Pure Phyllis, rice spice and so on. Usually divided into several varieties such as large-flowered Cornus officinalis, medium-flowered Cornus officinalis and small-flowered Cornus officinalis. Small trees or shrubs, 3-5 m tall, shoots dark purplish red, with shoots covered with grayish yellow or reddish rust-colored tomentum, or sparse short hairs. Born in open forests or thickets in mountainous areas from the flatlands to 1500 m above sea level, mostly on sunny slopes. Small or large numbers are planted throughout. [1] The young fruits are soaked and dried to make the traditional Chinese medicine Cornus officinalis, or Cornu Cervi for short, which is a bitter stomachic and analgesic, and is also used as an anthelmintic. It is hot, bitter and pungent in nature, and has the function of dispersing cold and relieving pain, descending reversal and stopping vomiting. It is used for treating headache or pain in stomach and epigastric cavity caused by deficiency and cold in liver and stomach, and the upward reversal of yin turbidity.

Chinese name

Cornelian cherry

Latin name

Evodia rutaecarpa (Juss.) Benth.

Alias

Cornelian cherry

Cornelian cherry

Cornelian cherry

Chornelian cherry

Diomorphic name

Tetradium ruticarpum< /p>

Boundary

Botanical kingdom

Morphological characters

Leaves with 5-11 leaflets, leaflets thin to thickly papery, ovate, elliptic or lanceolate, 6-18 cm long, 3-7 cm wide, smaller in the lower part of the leaf rachis,

bilaterally symmetric or the base of one side slightly oblique, the side entire or shallowly undulate, leaflets on both surfaces and the leaf rachis are villous. The hairs are dense and felt-like, or only short hairs on both sides of the midvein, and the oil dots are large and numerous.

Inflorescences terminal; flowers of male inflorescences distant from each other, flowers of female inflorescences crowded or distant; sepals and petals 5, occasionally 4, valvate; petals of male flowers 3-4 mm, ventrally sparsely hirsute, staminodes 4-5-parted, proximally and filaments white villous, stamens protruding from above petals; petals of female flowers 4-5 mm, ventrally hairy, staminodes scalelike or shortly linear or with minute sterile flowers. with minute sterile anthers, ovary and lower part of style sparsely hirsute.

The infructescence is (3-)12 cm wide, densely or sparsely fruited, dark purplish-red, with large oil dots, and 1 seed per mericarp; the seed is subglobose, obtuse-acute at one end, slightly flattened on the ventral surface, 4-5 mm long, brownish-black, and glossy. Flowering April-June, fruiting August-November.