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Zhe Mu, also known as Sangzhe Mu, is a plant of Moraceae, which is a famous and precious wood in Chinese history. It is recorded in most historical documents. Zhe Mu is generally not used as furniture material, because of its name mulberry, mulberry is homophonic with injury or mourning. So, what does Tochigi look like?

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Zhe is a deciduous shrub or small tree, 1-7 m high; bark grayish brown; branchlets glabrous, slightly angled, spinous, thorns 5-20 mm long; winter buds reddish brown. Leaves ovoid to Obovate, 5-14 cm long and 3-6 cm wide, entire, occasionally irregularly 3-lobed, apex acuminate, base cuneate to rounded, leaf surface dark green, glabrous, abaxially light green, usually glabrous, sparsely hairy, lateral veins 4-6 on each side; petiole 1-2 cm long, puberulent.

Zhe wood flowers dioecious, inflorescences globose capitate, solitary or axillary in pairs, total pedicel short; male inflorescences small, 5 mm in diam.; male tepals 4, bracts attached to perianth segments, apically fleshy, involute, stamens 4, erect in bud, pistillodes trapped in lower part of perianth segments, paniculate; female inflorescences 1-1.5 cm in diam., perianth segments 4, ovary deep into perianth segments. Aggregate fruit subglobose, about 2.5 cm in diameter, fleshy, orange-red when ripe. The florescence is from April to May and the fruiting period is from May to June.

Second, the main value of tree-building trees

The phloem fiber of Zhe Mu tree is the raw material of high quality papermaking, the wood is yellow dye, the leaves are the feed of young silkworms, and the polymerized fruit can be eaten raw or brewed wine.

The wood of Euphorbia angustifolia is sweet, warm and non-toxic, entering the liver and spleen meridians. The root bark is used as medicine, which has the effects of clearing heat, cooling blood, dredging muscles and collaterals, clearing liver and eyesight, etc., and can treat collapse and leakage, flying silk into the eye, and malaria.