You can boil water to drink, made into coleslaw, made into flavored oil, wood ginger seed fried chicken, pickled for consumption, soaked wood ginger seed, made into wood ginger seed chili sauce and so on. Wood ginger is a deciduous small tree, up to 10 meters high, grayish-white bark, young branches yellow-green, perianth lobes yellow, obovate, filament fruit spherical, blue-black at maturity.

Mogangzi is distributed in Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet, Gansu, Shaanxi, Henan, Shanxi, Zhejiang.

The main constituents of MGM are citral, geraniol, which can be used as edible flavor and cosmetic flavor, and the seeds contain fatty oil, which can be used for soap making and industrial use.

Mogaozi grows beside streams and mountainous sunny slopes in mixed woods or forest margins, at an altitude of 800~2300 meters.