Waxberry, also known as waxberry, is a plant of the Waxberry family. The leaves are opposite, and the stem is slightly four-angled. Flowers are small, waxy yellow. Open in the month of wax.

Wax plum, also known as waxwood, yellow plum. Belongs to the family of waxberry, deciduous shrubs, up to 4-5 meters high. Often clustered. Leaves opposite, subleathery, elliptic-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, apex acuminate, entire, buds with most imbricate scales. Late winter leaf-first flowering, flowers solitary in annual branch leaf axils, with a short stalk and cup-shaped receptacle, perianth multi-piece arranged in a spiral, yellow, waxy, flowering in December-January, with a strong aroma. The achenes are numerous, ripening in June-July. Native to central China, now cultivated everywhere. Sun-loving, shade-tolerant, cold-tolerant, drought-resistant, avoiding waterlogging. Wax plum flower in the frost and snow cold days proudly open, flowers yellow like wax, strong fragrance, is the main ornamental winter flowers. The flower of wax plum is processed to be a valuable medicinal herb, which has the effect of detoxifying and generating fluids.

Sepals 5 sepals Number of petals: single petal base 5 androgynous majority.