What does the Huangtan tree look like? Detailed introduction to its morphological characteristics

The Huangtan tree is a pioneer tree species for greening barren hills and wastelands, and can be used as a shade tree, landscape tree, and street tree, and can serve as a greening tree species for calcareous soil. So, do you know what the Huangtan tree looks like?

1. What does the Huangtan tree look like?

The Huangtan tree is a tree plant of the genus Dalbergia in the Fabaceae, 10-20 m tall. The bark is dark gray, and the young branches are pale green. The leaves are elliptic to oblong-elliptic. The flowering and fruiting period is from May to October. The panicle is terminal or borne in the axils of the uppermost leaves, the calyx is campanulate, the corolla is white or pale purple, the pod is oblong or broadly ligulate, and the seed is kidney-shaped.

2. Where does the Huangtan tree come from?

The Huangtan tree is native to Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan in China, growing vertically at an altitude of 600-1400 m. It grows in mountain forests or thickets, and is commonly seen in ravines and beside streams and on slopes with small groves. It can adapt to steep slopes, mountain ridges, exposed rock, and arid, poor areas.

3. What is the medicinal value of Dalbergia hupeana?

The root bark of the Huangtan tree can be used as medicine. It is generally excavated in summer and autumn. It has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, stopping bleeding, and reducing swelling. It mainly treats sores, scabies, and furunculosis, venomous snake bites, bacillary dysentery, and traumatic injuries, and is used in folk medicine to treat acute and chronic hepatitis and cirrhotic ascites.