Golden laurel is word.

Introduction of golden laurel:

Golden laurel (Osmanthus fragrans var. thunbergii) is an evergreen tree of the genus Xylocarpus in the family Xylocarpaceae. Leaf blade leathery, glabrous on both sides, glandular dots on both sides connected into small blister-like protrusions. Flowers are clustered in the axils of the leaves, and the corolla is four-lobed, orange-red, and extremely fragrant. Fruit skewed, ellipsoid, purplish-black.

Flowering period in mid and early September, usually a flower can bloom for 2-3 days. Golden laurel tree is one or two feet high, the branches and leaves are opposite, the leaves are like holly, the tip is long and a kind of color red for Dan Gui, white for silver laurel, gold color for golden laurel.

Golden laurel is native to the eastern section of the Himalayas in southwestern China, India, Nepal, Cambodia also has a distribution. Golden laurel is highly adaptable and relatively shade-tolerant. Choose sufficient light, deep soil, rich in humus, strong permeability, drainage and irrigation is convenient soil. Propagation methods include sowing, grafting, cuttings, pressing and so on.

Golden laurel can be used medicinally to warm the lungs and dissolve drinks, dispel cold and relieve pain. It is used for phlegm and cough, abdominal cold pain, intestinal wind and bloody diarrhea, menstrual dysmenorrhea, cold hernia and abdominal pain, toothache, and bad breath.

Mid-autumn, the series of laurel in full bloom, the night is quiet round the occasion, the wine to enjoy the laurel, Chen incense, refreshing. Osmanthus is one of China's top ten flowers, greening, landscaping, aroma in one; is both ornamental and practical excellent garden species, clear can be dust, thick can be far overflowing, can be called one of the best. Golden laurel is a variant of osmanthus.

Morphological features:

Evergreen broad-leaved large trees, crown globular; strong tree, branches upright, very close. Up to 12 meters high. Bark gray, lenticels round or oval, medium in number. The average branching power of the standard plant is 2.7; the spring tips are relatively robust, with an average length of 15.9 cm; the average number of nodes is 7.0 nodes/tip, of which the average number of leafy nodes is 4.2; the buds of the axillary buds are larger, with an average of 33.8 buds/tip, and the rate of unilateral 3 buds per node as well as the rate of stacking of more than 3 buds accounts for 69%.

Origin and Habitat:

Native to southwest China, it is widely cultivated throughout the world. The golden laurel likes light, tolerates shade, high temperature, and is not afraid of frost. Young trees also tolerate shade, but prefer warm and humid climatic conditions, with a certain degree of cold resistance, the soil requirements are more stringent. The tree species in the deep fertile, loose, moist sandy loam soil is most suitable, vigorous growth, healthy, but avoid saline soil.