Huzhizi (Latin name: Lespedeza bicolor?Turcz.), also known as: Hagi, Huzhizi, sweeping the skin, with the army tea, etc., belongs to the order of rosaceous, leguminous Huzhizi genus of erect shrubs, branching, ovate leaf blades, corolla of reddish purple. The pods are obliquely ovoid. Flowering in August, fruit ripening in September-October.

Can be used as green manure and fodder. The root is a purgative and detoxifying medicine, treating sores and snakebite. Rich in carbohydrates, constituting an important substance of the body; store and provide heat; detoxification; enhance intestinal function. Rich in fiber, has the ability to make people feel full, conducive to weight loss. After eating can stimulate the gastrointestinal tract, can prevent and control constipation, hemorrhoids and other diseases, has a high medicinal value

Chinese Literary Name

Hu Zhizi

Latin Scientific Name

Lespedeza bicolor?Turcz

Alias

Hagi, huzhi, sweeping the skin, follow the army tea

Boundary

Portal

Angiospermae

Morphological features

Upright shrub, 1-3 meters high, much branched, branchlets yellow or dark brown, striped, sparsely short hairy; buds ovate, 2-3 mm long, with several yellow-brown scales. Leaves pinnately compound with 3 leaflets; stipules 2, linear-lanceolate, 3-4.5 mm; petiole 2-7(-9) cm; leaflets thin, ovate, obovate or ovate-oblong, 1.5-6 cm long, 1-3.5 cm wide, apex obtuse-rounded or retuse, sparsely slightly pointed, with a short spiny tip, base subrounded or broadly cuneate, entire, green and glabrous above, pale on the underside, sparsely pilose, gradually glabrous with age. glabrous.