Chinese medicine "Dao Sheng Gen" is also known as "Liang Tou Cao", "Wu Long Mao", "Da Wu Pao", etc. It is the root of the plant Cha Tian Pao in the Rosaceae family. Let's take a look at the plant morphology of Dao Sheng Gen!
Dao Sheng Gen
Cha Tian Pao, also known as: Da Mai Mei ("Zhai Yuan Fang"), Cha Tian Biao ("Gang Mu"), Duan Yang Mei, and Korean Hooker.
It is a deciduous shrub, about 3 meters tall.
The stem is upright or curved into an arch shape, reddish-brown or purple-red in color, often covered with white powder, and has flat hook-like thorns.
Alternate compound leaves with odd-pinnate, petiolate; 3 to 7 leaflets, mostly 5, with the apical leaflet larger, rhomboid-ovate, and the lateral leaflets ovate, 3 to 6 centimeters long and 1.5 to 4 centimeters wide, with an acute apex and a wide wedge-shaped or nearly circular base, with irregular coarse sharp serrations on the edge, and soft hairs along the leaf veins on the lower surface; stipules linear.
Umbel inflorescences terminal or axillary, hairy; sepals 5, lanceolate, with tail-like tips at the apex, and soft hairs on the outer side;
Petals 5, pink, inverted ovate, shorter than the sepals; numerous stamens; numerous pistils, with the style nearly terminal.
The aggregate fruit is small, ovate, and turns red when ripe.
Flowering period is from April to May.
Fruiting period is from July to August.
It grows in mountainous shrubs, mountain roadsides, forest edges, and ditch edges.
Distributed in Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hubei, Sichuan, and other places.
The fruits of this plant are used as raspberries in Shaanxi, Sichuan, and other places.
The raspberry mentioned in "Zhi Wu Ming Shi Tu Kao" is this species.
