Deciduous shrubs. The new branches are slightly creeping, purple-brown, and the young branches are green, covered with white powder, and have a few barbs. The leaves are alternate, nearly round, palmately 5-lobed, occasionally 7-lobed, with irregularly serrated edges, and white pubescence on both veins; the petioles are scattered with fine spines, and the stipules are linear. The flowers are solitary in the leaf axil at the branch end; the sepals are 5, oval or oblong, covered with gray-white pubescence; the petals are 5, nearly round, white; there are many stamens, which are born on the raised receptacle. The aggregate fruit is spherical, red, pendulous, and the small drupe is densely covered with light yellowish white pubescence. The flowering period is from April to May, and the fruiting period is from June to July.

Name

Chinese name: Raspberry

Chinese Pinyin: jin yin hua

Latin scientific name: Lonicera japonica Thunb

Alternative names: Big bugle, mountain bubble, raspberry, East China raspberry, pseudo-raspberry, raspberry, small tray, raspberry, field raspberry, raspberry, raspberry, palm leaf raspberry , Rubus chingii Hu, Rubus chingii Hu, Rubus chingii Hu of fruit.

Medicinal properties: Warm in nature, sweet and sour in taste.

Technology: Harvest the fruits in early summer when they turn from green to green-yellow, remove the stems and leaves, blanch or steam them briefly in boiling water, take them out and dry them.