Saponaria number shape:

About 5-10 meters high, up to 30 meters, 120 cm diameter at breast height, crown oblate spherical. The bark is rough and indehiscent, dark gray or gray-black. Trunk and branches gray to dark brown, with branched rounded spines, shoots gray-green or sometimes brownish, with longitudinal ribs; spines cylindrical, stout, and often branched, conical from the middle to the tip, rounded in cross-section from the base to the tip, reddish-brown, glabrous, glossy, up to 16 cm long.

The role of the human body:

The pods, seeds, branches and thorns of the soapberry tree can be used as medicine, the pods can be used as an expectorant, diuretic; seeds can be used as a medicine to cure ringworm and constipation; soapberry can be used as a medicine to invigorate the blood and cure sores and ringworm, the soapberry tree is used as medicine with the fruits and seeds. It has the function of expectorant and opener.

Saponin contained in the soap pods are triterpenoids and oligosaccharides, anti-inflammatory, anti-ulcer, anti-degenerative effects, as well as anti-cancer and improve AIDS immunity and other effects. The roots, stems, and leaves of soap pods can be used to produce herbal oral liquids that clear away heat and toxins.

Extended information:

Saponaria is endemic to China and is domestically distributed in Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places, distributed at an altitude of 2,500 meters from the flatlands, generally grows in the roadside, village, house, sunny places, hillside forests or valleys.

Slightly shade-tolerant, cold-tolerant, saline-tolerant, preferring light and warm, humid climate, the soil requirements are not high, but in the dry and barren places are poor growth. Soapberry trees are long-lived, but slow-growing.

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