Gold wrapped in silver means that there is a lot of money and silver in the wallet, that is, rich property.

Introduction to gold-clad silver:

Gold-clad silver is a deciduous shrub plant of the genus Ilex of the Ilex family. The long branches and short branches are hairless; the leaves are ovate or ovate-elliptic, with a pointed apex and a tail, and a blunt or rounded base; the male flowers are bunch-like or solitary in the leaf axils, and the petals are white and nearly round at the base, and the female flowers are solitary in the leaf axils or scales. In the axilla; the fruit is black when ripe; the flowering period is March and the fruiting period is from April to October.

Gold-coated silver is distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Hunan, Jiangxi and other places in China, and also in the Philippines. Jin Bao Yin likes a warm and humid climate, needs shade, and is suitable for loose, well-drained mineral soil. The main propagation methods are sowing and cutting propagation.

According to the "Zhejiang Medicinal Flora", gold-coated silver has the effect of "clearing away heat and detoxifying, reducing swelling and blood stasis", and can be used externally to treat "bruises, boils and carbuncles". It contains chemical components such as triterpene saponins, flavonoids, phenols, and alkaloids. It also has anti-inflammatory, antiviral, antibacterial, and hypolipidemic effects.

The gold-coated silver fruit is small and black and is available for viewing. It is often planted on both sides of the road and at the edge of the forest. It can also be used to make herbal tea and is one of the main ingredients of "Wanglaoji Drink".

Morphological characteristics:

Plum leaf holly. Deciduous shrub, 3 meters high. The small branches are hairless, green, and brown when dry. The long branches are slender and have obvious white lenticels. The leaves are alternate; the petiole is 3 to 8 mm long; the leaves are membranous, oval or ovate-elliptical, 3 to 7 cm long, 1.5 to 3 cm wide, the apex tapers into a tail shape, the base is broadly wedge-shaped, and the edges are bluntly serrated. The upper surface of the midrib is slightly concave.

There are 6 to 8 pairs of lateral veins, the network of veins is not obvious, there are micro hairs on the upper surface or only on the veins, and there is no hair on the lower surface. Flowers white, dioecious; male flowers 2 to 3 in clusters or solitary leaf axils, 4 to 5 flowers, calyx 2.5 to 3 mm in diameter, hairless, broad triangular or round lobes, united at the base; female flowers solitary leaf eyes, The pedicel is 2~2.5 cm long and can be up to 3 cm long when in fruit.

Glare, 4 to 6 in number, calyx 2.5 to 3 mm in diameter, petals united at the base, ovary spherical and oval, about 1.5 mm in diameter, style obvious, stigma disk. The fruit is spherical, black-purple when ripe, 5-6 mm in diameter, 2-3 cm long, with 4-6 cores, a deep groove on the back, and stony endocarp. The flowering period is from April to May, and the fruiting period is from July to August.