Gold Tea

Calycanthaceae gold grades of tea plants, scientific name Chimonanthus willow (C.salicifolius), semi-evergreen shrub. Tree up to 4 meters. Small sprig was hard hair. Coriaceous leaves thin, long oval-shaped, longlanceolate or linear lanceolate, long 6-11cm, tip, tip, or becoming pure sharp, wedge-shaped base, the entire edge, rough above, gray green below, with white powder, by Sophie hair; petiole was only short-haired. Flowers solitary axil, twin thin, pale yellow; tepals 15-17 films, outside of tepals elliptic, the edge and back was soft hair, a long central line tepals lanceolate, long pointed tip, was sparse pubescens, which tepals lanceolate, sharp pointed tip, have a claw at the base; gold stamens 4-5; 6-8 carpel. Pear-shaped fruit care, long ovallong 2.3-3.6cm, contraction tip; achenes long 1-4cm, dark brown, the hair thinning, fruit umbilical level. October-December flowering, fruit period in May the following year. "China Zhi trees" records, only produced in the Qiantang River in Zhejiang Province at the source below 700 meters above sea level sparse mountain forest hills or bushes. According to "Compendium of Materia Medica" records, golden tea with a heat-clearing and detoxifying, theJianweixiaoshi.
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