Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi, Latin scientific name Scutellaria baicalensis, also known as camellia root, is a plant of Scutellaria in Labiatae. It is mainly distributed in China, Russian East Siberia, Mongolia, Korea and Japan.

Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi is fleshy and thick, Ye Jian paper-like, lanceolate to linear lanceolate; Racemes are terminal on stems and branches, with purple corolla, purple-red to blue corolla, flat filaments, slender style and annular disk; Ovary brown; Nutlets ovoid. It is wild in sunny and dry places such as hilltops, hillsides, forest edges and roadsides, and it likes warmth, cold resistance, drought resistance and fear of waterlogging.

Growth habit

Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi is a perennial herb, which is wild in the sunny and dry places such as hilltops, hillsides, forest edges and roadsides. It likes warmth and is cold-resistant. The underground part of adult plants can still survive the winter safely at the low temperature of -35℃, and will not die at the high temperature of 35℃, but it cannot withstand the continuous high temperature weather above 40℃. Drought tolerance and fear of waterlogging, too much water or rain in the ground, poor growth, and even root rot and death.

The land with poor drainage is not suitable for planting. The soil is loam and sandy loam, and the pH value is neutral and slightly alkaline, so continuous cropping is forbidden. Wild Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi is mainly distributed in China, central and eastern Inner Mongolia, most of the three northeastern provinces, Chengde, Hebei, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia and other major producing areas, and it is one of the main producing areas of wild Chinese herbal medicines in northern China. The cultivated Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi is mainly distributed in Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces.

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