Chinese scientific name: Daphne genkwa

Latin scientific name: FLOS GENKWA

Also known as: Southern genkwa, Daphne flower strips, medicinal fish grass, Guanhua, headache Flowers, flowerhead flowers, acanthus flowers, etc.

Kingdom: Plant kingdom

Phylum: Angiosperm

Class: Dicotyledon

Subclass: Rosa subclass

Order: Myrtle order

Family: Daphne family

Genus: Daphne genus

Deciduous Shrub, 1 meter high; stems are multi-branched, young branches have light yellow silky pubescence, old branches are brown or purplish red, hairless or sparsely pubescent. The leaves are opposite, rarely alternate, oblong or elliptical, 3-4.5 cm long, 0.9-1.5 cm wide, with long silky pubescence on the back, especially dense on the veins; the first leaf blooms, purple or Pink, 3-5 flowers, clustered in leaf axils; calyx has white downy, petal-shaped outside; petals are absent; stamens are 8, arranged in 2 whorls; ovary has white pubescence; stigma is red. The drupe is oblong, fleshy, white. The flowering period is from March to May, and the fruiting period is from June to July.

This product often grows in clusters of 3 to 7 flowers on a short flower axis, with 1 to 2 bracts at the base, and most of them fall off into single flowers. A single flower is club-shaped, mostly curved, 1 to 1.7cm long, and about 1.5mm in diameter; the surface of the perianth tube is lavender or gray-green, densely pubescent, with 4 lobes at the apex and lavender or yellow-brown lobes. Soft.

The whole plant is toxic, with the buds and roots being the most toxic.