Purple oil wood leaves, as a traditional Chinese medicine material, have many benefits. Let's learn about what purple oil wood leaves are.
What are purple oil wood leaves?
Purple oil wood leaves are the young leaves of the evergreen tree, aromatic wood, which belongs to the family Anacardiaceae. Because purple oil wood leaves look very similar to the Chinese toon tree, they are also called false toon or purple leaves.
The young leaves of purple oil wood have soft gray-yellow hairs. The leaf axis has narrow wings and grooves on the upper side. The pinnate compound leaves are alternate, and the leaflets are leathery, oblong or obovate-oblong, and relatively small.
The base is slightly asymmetric, broad-wedge-shaped, entire, slightly curled upwards, and both sides have extremely fine soft hairs on the midrib, with a slight gloss on the upper side.
Purple oil wood leaves can be used as medicine, and it is also the name of a traditional Chinese medicine. The bark of purple oil wood leaves is called purple oil wood bark in Chinese medicine and also has good medicinal value.
The original form of purple oil wood leaves!
Aromatic wood is an evergreen shrub or small tree, 2-8m tall, rarely reaching 10-15m. The bark is gray, and the small branches have brown lenticels. The young branches are covered with gray-yellow soft hairs.
Pinnate compound leaves are alternate, with 4-9 pairs of leaflets. The leaf axis has narrow wings and grooves on the upper side, and is covered with gray soft hairs. The leaflets have short petioles.
The leaflets are leathery, oblong or obovate-oblong, relatively small, measuring 1.3-3.5cm in length and 0.8-1.5cm in width. The apex is slightly notched, with thorn-like hard tips.
The base is slightly asymmetric, broad-wedge-shaped, entire, slightly curled upwards, with extremely fine soft hairs on both sides of the midrib, and slightly glossy on the upper side. The inflorescence is axillary and appears together with the leaves.
The flowers are small and purple-red, sessile, with 1 bract, ovate. The male flowers have 5-8 perianth lobes, oblong or lanceolate, measuring 1.5-2mm in length.
There are 5 stamens, rarely 7, with very short filaments and elongated elliptical anthers. Sterile pistils are present.
The female flowers have 7-10 lanceolate perianth lobes, measuring 1-1.5mm in length. The ovary is spherical, about 0.7mm in diameter, without hairs, and the stigma is very short with a 3-lobed style, curved outward.
The fruit is spherical, about 5mm long and 6mm in diameter. When ripe, it is red with a slender tip and has a network pattern on the surface.
