Wild yellow skin has a natural fragrance throughout the entire plant. Its fruits can be eaten when they are ripe, and the roots and leaves can also be used medicinally, making it highly valuable. Let's learn more about wild yellow skin together.
1. Roots
The roots are thick and long, with dense fibrous leaf sheath remnants.
2. Leaves
Basal leaves are mostly present, shaped like rectangles, measuring 3 to 9 centimeters in length. They are three times pinnately lobed, with the final lobes being strip-shaped, measuring 5 to 10 millimeters in length and approximately 1 millimeter in width. The edges are folded inward. Leaf stalks are 2 to 8 centimeters long, with a sheath at the base. Flower stems are often branched.
3. Flowers
The compound umbel inflorescence is terminal, with numerous bracts that are strip-shaped and approximately 1 centimeter long. The umbels are 10 to 20 in number, measuring 1.5 to 3 centimeters in length. There are multiple bractlets, which are strip-shaped and 3 to 5 millimeters long. The flower stalks are densely scattered, measuring about 2 millimeters in length. The flowers are white, with obovate petals that are 2-lobed at the apex. The base is contracted, the middle is concave, and there are small inwardly folded tongue-shaped petals. The sepals are prominent, persistent during fruiting, and the sepals curl backward. The ovary is hairy, and the stigma is elongated, equal to or slightly longer than the fruit.
4. Fruits
The paired fruits are rectangular-ovate, measuring 4 to 5 millimeters in length. They have sparse hairs, a slightly contracted apex, and thread-like fruit ridges that are slightly raised. The flowering and fruiting period is from July to September.
