Zi, also known as: Mu Wang, Qiu, Hua Qiu, Shui Tong, He Qiu, Chou Wu Tong, Huang Hua Qiu, Mu Jiao Dou. It is a tall tree, reaching up to 15 meters in height; the crown is umbrella-shaped, with a straight trunk and sparsely hairy young branches. The leaves are opposite or nearly opposite, sometimes whorled, broadly ovate, with similar length and width, about 25 centimeters long, gradually pointed at the apex, heart-shaped at the base, entire or shallowly wavy, often with 3 shallow lobes, the leaf surfaces are rough with fine hairs or nearly hairless, with 4-6 pairs of lateral veins, 5-7 palmate veins at the base; petiole is 6-18 centimeters long. Terminal globose inflorescence; inflorescence stalk sparsely hairy, 12-28 centimeters long. Sepals are spherical in bud stage, 2-lipped, 6-8 millimeters long. Corolla is campanulate, pale yellow, with 2 yellow stripes and purple spots on the inner surface, about 2.5 centimeters long and 2 centimeters in diameter. There are 2 fertile stamens, filaments inserted on the corolla tube, anthers bifid; 3 staminodes are degenerate. Ovary is superior, rod-shaped. Style is filiform, stigma 2-lobed. Capsule is linear, pendulous, 20-30 centimeters long, 5-7 millimeters thick. Seeds are elongate-ovate, 6-8 millimeters long and about 3 millimeters wide, with long spreading hairs at both ends.
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Zi fruit blooming period
Zi fruit fruit
Zi fruit finished medicine
