scientific name: Glochidion puberum (Linn.) Hutch；;
Alias: Red Haired Steamed Bread Fruit, Wild Pumpkin, Persimmon Pepper, Lion Bowl, Hundred Oranges, American Provincial List, and Shorty Lang.
Erect shrub, 1-5m high, with many branches; Branchlets grayish brown; Branchlets, leaves below, sepals outside, ovaries and fruits are densely pubescent.
The leaves are papery or nearly leathery, oblong, oblong or obovate-oblong, sparsely lanceolate, 3-8 cm long and 1-2.5 cm wide, with blunt, acute, short-tapering or round tip, wedge-shaped to blunt base, grayish green on the top, sparsely pubescent or almost hairless on the midvein, and pink green on the bottom; There are 5-7 lateral veins on each side, the lower part is convex and the reticular veins are obvious; Petiole 1-3 mm long; Stipules triangular, about 1 mm long.
flowers are small, monoecious or dioecious, with 2-5 flowers clustered in leaf axils. Male bouquets are often planted in the lower part of branchlets, while female bouquets are in the upper part, or sometimes female flowers and male flowers are born in the same leaf axils.
Male flowers: pedicels 4-15mm long; Sepals 6, oblong or oblong obovate, 2.5-3.5 mm long; Stamens 3, connate into a cylinder.
female flower: the pedicel is about 1 mm long; Sepals 6, similar to those of male flowers, but shorter and thicker; The ovary is spherical, with 5-1 cells, and each cell has 2 ovules. The style is ring-shaped, and its length and width are almost equal to that of the ovary, and it shrinks at the junction with the ovary.
The capsule is oblate, 8-15mm in diameter, with 8-1 longitudinal grooves at the edge, reddish when it matures, and a ring-shaped and slightly elongated persistent style at the top; Seeds subreniform, trigonous, about 4 mm long, vermilion.
the flowering period is from April to August, and the fruiting period is from July to November.
it is produced in Shaanxi, Gansu, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan Province, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and Tibet, and it is born in hillsides, bushes beside streams or forest margins at an altitude of 3-2,2m.
seeds can be pressed for oil, with an oil content of 2%, which can be used for making soap or lubricating oil.
Roots, stems, leaves and fruits are all medicinal, and have the effects of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, diminishing swelling and detoxicating, and can be used for treating dysentery, diarrhea, common cold, fever, cough, indigestion, abdominal pain, damp-heat lumbago, traumatic injury, xenon (fruit) and so on.
can also be used as pesticide; The whole plant can extract tannin extract; Leaves can be used as green manure and placed in septic tanks to kill maggots.
This species is very common in barren hills and shrubs in South China, and it is an indicator plant of acidic soil. (Excerpted from Flora of China)