Tephrosia seeds with fleshy aril are broadly moment-rounded or obovoid, 3-4 centimeters long, 1.5-2.5 centimeters in diameter, whitish powdered, drying dark purple, glossy, and apically mucronate; the seeds are rectangular-rounded obovate or terete, 2.7-3.2 centimeters long, 1-1.6 centimeters in diameter, with slight longitudinal shallow grooves, the base is pointed, and the endosperm is slightly wrinkled internally.

The fruit of Cephalotaxus is a nut with high nutritional value. Dried fruit called "Cephalotaxus", for the famous dried fruit, olive-shaped, hard shell, black fruit coat wrapped in yellowish flesh, edible, nutritious. In East Asian countries, Cephalotaxus wood is used to make chessboards of high-grade wood.

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Tephrosia grows and matures in three years: the first year blossoms in May; the second year another batch of blossoms and fruits in May; after the third year of blossoms and fruits, the fruits from the first year of blossoms and fruits ripen in the summer. Flowering in mid- and late April, fruit ripening in September of the following year, its fruit in clusters of clusters of growth in the branches, known as the "three generations of fruit", a tree, often one year fruit, two years of fruit at the same time.

Tephrosia is a subtropical hardy tree species, dioecious, shallow-rooted, semi-shaded evergreen tree, preferring warm and humid, low-light cool climate environment, the sunset and foggy streams on both sides of the river and less direct light and more scattered light on the hillside valleys is the best place for it to live, suitable for the south of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, avoiding planting in the wind.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Cephalotaxus

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