What is Hypericum patulum? A real guide to this plant

Flowers & Gardening Jan 1, 1970 0 views

Hypericum patulum is a semi-evergreen or evergreen small shrub in the family Clusiaceae (Guttiferae), genus Hypericum, with reddish or dark brown branchlets. The leaves are opposite, ovate, long-ovate, or ovate-lanceolate. The inflorescence is corymbose, and the petals are golden yellow.

Other names for Hypericum patulum

Mangzhong flower, Yunnan forsythia, Duanzhiguo

Morphological characteristics of Hypericum patulum

Semi-evergreen or evergreen small shrub, 0.3-1.5 m tall, clump-forming, with spreading branches, sometimes slightly leafy. Stems pale red to orange, when young with 4 longitudinal lines or 4-angled, soon with 2 longitudinal lines, sometimes finally cylindrical; internodes 0.8-4 cm long, shorter than or rarely longer than the leaves; bark grayish brown.

Petals golden yellow, without a red tinge, more or less incurved, oblong-obovate to broadly obovate, 1.2-1.8 cm long, 1-1.4 cm wide, about 1.5-2.5 times as long as the sepals, margin entire or slightly erose-denticulate, with 1 row of submarginal glandular dots, with lateral small apiculi, the apex of the apiculi more or less rounded to absent.

Growth habits of Hypericum patulum

Hypericum patulum has strong adaptability, moderately prefers light, has a certain degree of cold tolerance, prefers moist soil, dislikes waterlogging, and grows well on light loam.

Main value of Hypericum patulum

Ornamental: The flowers are ornamental. Hypericum patulum has large flowers, a beautiful flower shape, and striking golden yellow color, with an ornamental period of up to 10 months, making it a very precious wild ornamental shrub. It is suitable for planting in courtyards, beside rockeries, along roadsides, on lawns, and other places; it can also be arranged in specialized gardens and flower borders, grown in pots for ornament, and used as cut flowers. It is a good material for urban greening in the western region.

Medicinal: The whole plant is used medicinally; the traditional Chinese medicine names are Mangzhong flower, thin forsythia, and earth forsythia. It is bitter and cold in nature, and has effects such as clearing heat and detoxifying, relaxing tendons and invigorating blood, promoting diuresis and treating strangury, and promoting lactation.

The flower language of Hypericum patulum

Hating sorrow