Source: Rhus chinensis leaves belonging to Uraciaceae.

Latin animal and plant mineral name: Rhus chinensis.

Harvest in summer and autumn, and use it as you harvest it.

plant morphology

Rhus chinensis in its original form, small deciduous trees or shrubs, 2- 10 meters high. Branchlets brown, rust-colored pilose, with round lenticels. Odd pinnate compound leaves alternate, and leaf axes and petioles often have wings; Leaflets 5- 13, leaflets sessile; Leaflets are papery, polymorphic, often oval or oval, oval or oblong, 6- 12cm long and 3-7cm wide. The apex is acute, the base is round, the edge is coarsely serrated or subglabrous, and the back of the leaves is rusty. Panicle is wide, terminal and multi-branched, with male inflorescence 30-40 cm long and female inflorescence short and densely rusted; Flowers are small, mixed, yellow and white; The calyx lobes of male flowers are oval, about 65438±0mm long, and the petals are oblong, about 2mm long. When flowering, they spread outward, with prominent stamens, linear filaments and oval anthers. Female calyx lobes are short, about 0.6 mm long, and petals are ovoid and ovoid, about 1.6 mm long; Disk glabrous; Ovary ovoid, about 65438 0 mm long, densely white puberulent; Style 3, stigma capitate. Drupe is spherical, slightly flat, about 4-5mm in diameter, with nodes and glandular hairs, red at maturity, 3-4 mm in diameter, flowering in August-September, and fruiting in 65438+ 10 month.

Leaves of Rhus verniciflua in China

Habitat distribution ecological environment: born in shrubs and sparse forests of Lime Mountain at an altitude of 350-2300m.

Distribution of resources: distributed all over the country.