Gardenia looks like (picture)
What is called mast
Gardenia, alias: yellow gardenia, mountain gardenia, white toad, is the fruits of gardenia of the plant of the family of Rubiaceae, the gas is slight, the taste is slightly sour and bitter.
The fruit of gardenia is the traditional Chinese medicine, belongs to the Ministry of Health promulgates the l batch of medicine and food dual-use resources. It contains saffron coloring pigment glycoside base, can be used as yellow dye.
Gardenia flower looks like (picture)
What does gardenia tree look like
Gardenia is a shrub, 0.3-3 meters high; The shoots are often covered with short hairs, and the branches are cylindrical, gray.
Gardenia leaves opposite, or for 3 whorls, leathery, sparse for paper, leaf shape is diverse, usually oblong lanceolate, obovate oblong, obovate or elliptic, 3-25 centimeters long, 1.5-8 centimeters wide, apical acuminate, cuspidate long acuminate or mucronate and obtuse.
Base cuneate or mucronate, often glabrous on both surfaces, bright green above, darker below; lateral veins 8-15 pairs, raised below, flat above; petiole 0.2-1 cm long; stipules membranous.
Gardenia blossoms and fruits look like (picture)
What is the shape of gardenia flower look like
Gardenia flower fragrant, usually single born at the top of the branch, the pedicel is 3-5 millimeters long; The calyx tube is obconic or ovate, 8-25 millimeters long, has longitudinal ribs, calyx eaves tubular, expanding.
The apical part of the gardenia is 5-8-lobed, usually 6-lobed, lobes lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 10-30 mm long, 1-4 mm wide, growing when fruiting, persistent.
It has a white or creamy yellow, salverform corolla with a sparsely pilose throat, and a narrowly cylindrical crown tube, 3-5 centimeters long, 4-6 millimeters wide, and 5- to 8-lobed apically, usually 6-lobed.
Generally, the lobes of gardenia are widely spreading, obovate or obovate-oblong, 1.5-4 centimeters long, 0.6-2.8 centimeters wide; filaments are extremely short, and anthers are linear, 1.5-2.2 centimeters long, protruding.
Styles thick, ca. 4.5 cm, stigmas fusiform, projecting, 1-1.5 cm long, 3-7 mm wide, ovary ca. 3 mm in diameter, yellow, smooth.
Generally, gardenia from the winter began to nurture buds, until nearly the summer solstice will not bloom, the longer the period of buds, the more long-lasting Qingfen.
Yellow gardenia look (picture)
What is gardenia look like
Gardenia is the dry mature fruit of gardenia in the family of Rubiaceae, the root can also be used in medicine. 9~November fruit ripening reddish-yellow when harvested, remove the fruit stalks and the impurity, steam to the upper steam or put in the boiling water to scald a little, take out, dry. Root summer and fall digging, washed and dried.
Gardenia fruit ovate, subglobose, ellipsoid or oblong, yellow or orange-red, 1.5-7 centimeters long, 1.2-2 centimeters in diameter, with winged longitudinal ribs 5-9.
Generally gardenia's part of the persistent sepals up to 4 centimeters long, up to 6 millimeters wide. Seeds mostly compressed suborbicular and slightly angular, ca. 3.5 mm long, ca. 3 mm wide.
Gardenia hanging fruit tree looks like (picture)
Gardenia medicinal form and role
①Morphology
Gardenia medicinal form, present long ovoid or oval, 1.5～3.5cm long, 1～1.5cm in diameter.
②Surface
It has a reddish-yellow or brownish-red surface, with 6 wing-like longitudinal ribs, often with a distinct longitudinal vein pattern between the ribs, and branching.
Generally, the apical remnant sepals of gardenia, the base is slightly pointed, with remnant fruit pedicel. The pericarp is thin and brittle, slightly glossy.
And, its inner surface is lighter in color, glossy, with 2 to 3 elevated pseudosepta.
Its seeds are numerous, compressed ovoid, clustered, dark red or reddish-yellow, and the surface is densely covered with tiny warty protuberances.
③ dyeing material
Gardenia is the most widely used yellow dye before qin and han, gardenia fruit contains ketone substance gardenia xanthin, there are also saffronin and so on, the substance used for dyeing yellow is saffron acid.
Origin of mast
Gardenia is produced in Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Sichuan, Guizhou and other areas, Hebei, Shaanxi and Gansu have cultivation.