A duck-billed flower shaped like a duck-billed bar

Platypus is a species of Platypus in the family Gracilidae. Shrubs, plant height 2-3m, stem nodes dilated, young branches hairy, leaves opposite, rectangular-round-lanceolate or rectangular-round-elliptic, tip, entire, spikes terminal or axillary, bracts ovate, Corolla lip-shaped, white, with purple lines, flowering in spring and summer.

Duck-billed flower

Morphological features:

Large shrubs, to 1-3 m high; branches Terete, gray, lenticellate, shoots densely gray-white puberulent. Leaves papery, rectangular-lanceolate to lanceolate, or ovate or elliptic-ovate, 15-20 cm long and 4.5-7.5 cm wide, apex acuminate, sometimes slightly caudate, base broadly cuneate, entire, upper subglabrous, abaxially puberulent; midrib sulcate above, lateral veins ca. 12 on each side; petiole 1.5-2 cm long. There is a special stench after kneading the stems and leaves. Spikes ovate or slightly elongated; pedicels 5-10 cm long; bracts ovate or broadly ovate, 1-3 cm long, 8-15 mm wide, puberulent; bracteoles lanceolate, slightly shorter than bracts, calyx lobes 5, rectangular-orbicular-lanceolate, ca. 8 mm; Corolla white, purple striped or pink, 2.5-3 cm long, pilose, coronal tube ovate, ca. 6 mm Anther chamber elliptic, usually with globose appendages inconspicuous at base. Capsule subwoody, ca. 0.5 cm, distally with 4 seeds, lower solid shortly stipitate.

Duck-billed flower

Growth environment:

The sex likes to be warm, the cold tolerance is low, avoid frost.

Distribution range:

Native to tropical Asia, Hainan, China and Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi are naturally distributed and cultivated all over the country.

Duck-billed flower

Medicinal value:

The whole plant was used as medicine. It can be picked all the year round. How rarely used or washed and dried. The classics of nature and taste: bitterness, bitterness and warmth. Functional indications: dispelling wind and promoting blood circulation, dispelling blood stasis and relieving pain, bone grafting. For fracture, sprain, rheumatic joint pain, low back pain. Continue tendon and bone, dispel wind and relieve pain, remove phlegm.

Cultivation techniques:

There are two kinds of reproduction of duck-billed flowers: sowing method and cutting method, and the sowing method is the same as that of general flowers. Cutting method: using young stems as cuttings, which can be divided into two periods, and the cutting method is the same as that of ordinary woody flowers.