Xili

Other names: jelly seed, magnolia, jelly fruit

Evergreen climbing or creeping shrub; contains latex; branchlets have brown hairs. The leaves are heteromorphic or dimorphic; the leaves on branches without inflorescences are small and thin, heart-shaped and oval, with an oblique base, almost sessile, about 2.5 cm long, and an oblique base; leaves on branches with inflorescences Large and thick, leathery, oval-shaped, with raised veins, 3-9 cm long, blunt top, hairless surface, short hairs on the back, obvious veins, and protrusions into a honeycomb shape. Cryptocarpa is solitary in the leaf axils, pear-shaped or obovate, about 5 cm long, 3 cm in diameter, and has a short stalk. The flowering period is from April to May, the fruit is in June, the achenes mature in September, and the fruit is mature in October.