Sources of plant Loranthaceae Loranthaceae Taxillus chinensis (DC.) Danser of branches, leaves and stems.
Parasitic evergreen plant forms a small shrub. Old branches glabrous, with protruding lenticels greyish yellow, a little sprig was dark gray undercoat. Leaves alternate or near right-sheng, leathery, oval to long oval-shaped oval, length 3 ~ 8cm, width 2 ~ 5cm, blunt tip round, full edge of a small child, coat; petiole length 1 ~ 1.5cm. Cyme 1 ~ 3 Staphylococcin axil, with a total pedicel, pedicel, calyx and corolla were short reddish-brown stellate pubescence; calyx nearly spherical, with the ovary-Sheng; corolla tube narrow, slightly curved, purple, tip 4 crack; stamen 4; ovary under the bit, a room. Berry oval, there are tumor-like protuberances. Flowering 8 to 9 months, fruit period 9 to October.
Parasitic on the structure, Ash, elm, silk-cotton tree Park and so on. Produced in Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Yunnan.
Collect and process the winter to the second spring trees, tapping to remove coarse stems, cut into sections, drying, or steam after the drying.
Traits was a cylindrical stem and branches, long 3 ~ 4cm, diameter of 0.2 ~ 1cm; the surface of red-brown or gray, with thin vertical stripes, and there are many small lenticels, red, brown sprig fine wool. Sometimes boast leaf, multi-rolled, complete those oval, full-edge, brown, leather quality, young leaves were also red-brown fine wool. Stem hard, irregular cross-section, the Ministry of reddish-brown leather, wooden palm tree color lighter. No smell, taste astringent.
Chemical composition of branches, leaves contain glycosides that is widely parasitic Artemisia build glycosides (avicularin), and quercetin (quercetin) and so on.
Sexual taste of flat, bitter, sweet.