When do pagoda tree flowers usually bloom? Introduction to the flowering period

Pagoda tree flowers, also known as black locust flowers, are the flowers of the pagoda tree (Sophora japonica), a plant of the genus Sophora in the Fabaceae family. They are multiple flowers in racemes, pale yellow, with papilionaceous corollas; when in full bloom they form clusters, overlapping and hanging down. They can be cooked and eaten, and can also be used as traditional Chinese medicine or dye. They can be used as medicine and have cooling, astringent, hemostatic and blood pressure-lowering effects. They are also an important nectar plant. Now let us take a look at which month pagoda tree flowers usually bloom!

Which month do pagoda tree flowers bloom?

Pagoda trees are often planted beside houses and roads, and are widely cultivated throughout China, mainly in the north, especially on the Loess Plateau and the North China Plain. They usually bloom from April to May each year, and the flowering period is generally about 10 to 15 days.

Origin and distribution of Sophora japonica

Sophora japonica is native to China and is now widely cultivated in all provinces and regions of northern and southern China, and is especially common in North China and the Loess Plateau. It is also distributed in Japan and Vietnam, and is found growing wild in Korea. It has been introduced and planted in countries in Europe and the Americas.

Medicinal value of pagoda tree flowers

[Nature and flavor] Bitter in taste, neutral in nature, non-toxic.

[Meridian entry] Liver and large intestine meridians.

[Effects] Cool the blood and stop bleeding, clear the liver and purge fire. It mainly treats intestinal wind with bloody stool, hemorrhoidal bleeding, bloody dysentery, blood in the urine, strangury with blood, abnormal uterine bleeding, vomiting blood, epistaxis, liver-fire headache, red and swollen eyes with pain, throat obstruction, loss of voice, and carbuncles and sores.

[Contraindications] Pagoda tree flowers are cool in nature, so people with deficiency-cold of the spleen and stomach should not eat them.

1. Pagoda tree flowers have the effects of clearing heat, cooling the blood, stopping bleeding, and lowering blood pressure, and have significant therapeutic effects on vomiting blood, blood in the urine, hemorrhoidal bleeding, red eyes due to wind-heat, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, cervical lymphatic tuberculosis, vascular sclerosis, blood in the stool, diabetes, retinitis, psoriasis, and so on.

2. Pagoda tree flowers can expel parasites and treat pharyngitis.

3. Pagoda tree flowers can enhance the resistance of capillaries, reduce vascular permeability, and help brittle blood vessels regain their elasticity, thereby lowering blood lipids and preventing vascular sclerosis.