Ilex cornuta: Ilex? ilex
Alias: birds don't stay, cats bite people.
Smell: micro-based, cool and nontoxic.
Indications: soak the wood bark in wine, tonify the waist and feet, strengthen the body, burn ashes, pour juice or decoction, and apply vitiligo.
Morphological characteristics: evergreen shrubs or small trees. The bark is grayish white. The leaves are square, the teeth are hard, the leather is hard, green and bright, and the back is light green. Cymes, yellow-green, clustered in axils of 2-year-old branchlets, flowering from April to May. Drupe is spherical and bright red when it matures. The fruiting period is 10- 1 1 month. Ilex cornuta is 3 to 4 meters high, with gray bark and dense branches. What is particularly strange is that it has three spikes at the top of its leaves, the middle one is often rolled outward, the stem is flat, and there are 1 to 2 spikes on both sides, which is very "sword halberd". Ilex cornuta is a dioecious plant, which blooms in April with small light green flowers clustered on biennial branches. From the end of 10 to the following year, the spherical drupe gradually matured and turned from green to red, which was very lovely. Ilex cornuta is a flower variety with lush foliage and peculiar leaf shape. Especially after autumn, there are many red fruits, which are bright and beautiful.
Use:? Leaves, fruits and roots are used as medicine. Leaves can cure tuberculosis, hot flashes and hemoptysis, fruits are often used for leukorrhagia and chronic diarrhea, and roots are often used for rheumatism, jaundice and hepatitis. Seeds contain oil and can be used to make soap; Bark can be used as a dye. Leaves contain saponins, tannins, bitterness, etc. Bark contains alkaloids and so on.
Ilex kudingcha: Ilex
Alias:? Pineapple tree, Daye tea, Kuding tea. The source is the leaves of Ilex macrophylla. Born on hillsides, bamboo forests and bushes. Distributed in provinces and Fujian in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.
Plant morphology: evergreen trees, up to 15m. The diameter is about 60cm, the bark is black or gray-black, rough, with shallow cracks, thick and smooth branches and angular new branches. The leaves are leathery, spirally alternate, oblong or ovoid, with sharp or slightly rounded apex, blunt base, sparse marginal teeth, shiny top and prominent main veins at the bottom. Cymes, mostly concentrated in the upper leaf axils; Male inflorescence has 1 ~ 3 flowers, while female inflorescence has only 1 flower; Bracts ovate, numerous; Calyx 4-lobed, lobes ovate, hairy, yellow-green; Petals 4, oval, base healing, 3 times that of calyx; There are 4 stamens in male flowers, which are longer than petals. The filaments are straight, the anthers are oval, and there is a degeneration chamber in the center. Androgynous stamens are as long as petals, and the ovary is spherical and oval. Drupe is spherical, red after maturity, with residual style; There are four cores and three edges. The flowering period is from April to May, and the fruiting period is 65438+1October. Traits? The leaves are oval, leathery, non-shrinking, and some are slightly curled longitudinally, with yellow-green or grayish-green luster at the top and yellow-green at the bottom. It tastes slightly bitter.
Sexual taste? Cold in nature, bitter and sweet in taste.
Below is a picture of Kuding tea.