Is Golden St. John's Wort a Woody Plant? Learn About Golden St. John's Wort in One Article

Flowers & Gardening Jan 1, 1970By Emily Carter 0 views

Golden St. John's Wort is a semi-evergreen or evergreen small shrub in the genus Hypericum, family Clusiaceae, 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 Golden St. John's Wort

Mangzhonghua, Yunnan Lianqiao, Duanzhiguo

Morphological Characteristics of Golden St. John's Wort

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

Petals golden yellow, without 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 Golden St. John's Wort

Golden St. John's Wort has strong adaptability, moderately light-loving, with some cold tolerance, prefers moist soil, dislikes waterlogging, and grows well on light loam.

Main Values of Golden St. John's Wort

Ornamental: The flowers are for ornamental use. Golden St. John's Wort has large blooms, an attractive 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, and on lawns, and can also be arranged in specialized gardens and flower borders, grown in pots for ornament, and used as cut flowers; it is an excellent material for urban greening in the western region.

Medicinal: The whole plant is used medicinally; the traditional Chinese medicine names are Mangzhonghua, Xi Lianqiao, and Tu Lianqiao. It is bitter and cold in nature, and has effects such as clearing heat and detoxifying, relaxing sinews and invigorating blood, promoting diuresis and treating strangury, and promoting lactation.

Flower Language of Golden St. John's Wort

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