The Chinese medicine Ilex latifolia, as a botanical name is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, the nature of the taste of the bitter, cold, with the effect of stopping bleeding and smoothing the skin, traditional Chinese medicine is often used in medicine. (Scientific name: Ilex latifolia Thunb.) is a large evergreen tree, up to 20 meters high, 60 centimeters in diameter at breast height, all glabrous; bark gray-black; leaf blade thick leathery, oblong or ovate-oblong, pseudo-panicle composed of cymes born in the leaf axils of biennial branches, sessile; flowers yellowish-green, 4-keeled. Corolla rotate, petals ovate-oblong, sterile ovary subglobose, corolla erect, petals 4, ovate, fruit globose, red at maturity, flowering in April, fruiting in September-October.

Botanical a.k.a.: gentian boy, white incense, white silver, white orchid incense, white silver incense, shit wood, bear gall wood, holly boy, broken bone wood, small wind vine, white van wood, nine layers of skin, over the mountain wind, red bear gall, holly wood, mountain wintergreen, white skin wintergreen, big leaf wintergreen, white mountain leaf.