Big Ten Gonglao is a dicotyledonous plant, Berberidaceae, big ten Gonglao plants, can be used as potted plants, garden planting and medicinal use. Alias: narrow-leaved ten big Gonglao, fine-leaved ten big Gonglao, Huang Tianzhu, soil yellow cypress, cat's thorn, soil yellow cypress, octagonal thorn, thorn yellow cypress, cat's head (common name in southern Anhui Province, cat's thorn leaves), thorn yellow scutellaria. Gonglao wood, ten great gonglao, mountain scutellaria, xifengzhu, prickly huanglian.

Ten Gonglao leaf shape peculiar, elegant and beautiful, potted plants for indoor furnishings, because of its good tolerance for shade, can be a long time in the indoor scattered light conditions. In the garden can also be planted in the rockery side or in the rock crevice, but it is best to have a large tree shade. Ten Gonglao flowers are cool in nature and sweet in flavor. Roots and stems are cold and bitter. Containing berberine, root alkaloids, magnoflorine and so on. Berry spherical, 4-6 mm in diameter, purple-black, covered with white powder. Flowering in July-September, fruiting in September-November. The fruits of the Ten Merits are poisonous, so they should not be eaten. Although the toxicity is not great, but accidental ingestion will lead to our physical discomfort. It is recommended that we still use it for ornamental purposes only.

It has the effect of clearing heat and removing toxins, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. It has an inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, dysentery bacillus and coliform bacteria. The main treatment for bacterial dysentery, gastroenteritis, infectious hepatitis, bronchitis, sore throat, conjunctivitis, burns, scalds and other diseases. Fruits are picked and roots are dug at the end of fall, and leaves are picked throughout the year and dried in the sun or dried for spare. Growing at 350-2000 meters above sea level on mountain slopes in the undergrowth and bushes or more shady and humid places, shaded, reproduced by seed.