Golden Cherry, also known as: white jade belt, downhill tiger, prickly vine spine, prickly Langzi tree, mantis tree, three-leafed strangler.

Evergreen climbing shrub, up to 5 meters high.

Stem reddish brown, with barb-like prickles.

Three out of compound leaves alternate; leaflets leathery, elliptic-ovoid to ovoid-lanceolate, lateral leaflets smaller, petiole and leaflets below the midvein without thorns or sparse thorns; petiole 1-2 cm long, with brown glandular dots fine spines; stipules below the middle of and united with the petiole, and its separated part linear-lanceolate.

Flowers solitary at the tip of lateral branches, 5-8 cm in diameter; pedicel stout, up to 3 cm long, with straight spines; receptacle inflated, with fine spines; sepals 5, ovate-lanceolate, some apically enlarged into leaves, covered with glandular hairs; petals 5; stamens numerous, anthers inserted in the shape of thongs; pistil with numerous carpels, free, tomentose, style linear, stigma rounded.

The mature receptacle is red, globose or obovate, with straight spines, apically with a long persistent calyx, containing several bony achenes.

Flowering May.

Fruiting September to October. Grows in stony places in deserted mountains.

Distributed in central, southern, and eastern China and Sichuan and Guizhou.

The root or root bark of this plant (golden cherry root), leaves (golden cherry leaves), flowers (golden cherry flowers) are also used for medicinal purposes, each detailed in the special article.