Myrtle, Sida, Sida

Aliases: Nim son, Yamamori, Gang Minoru, commonly known as "mountain milk"

Morphological features:

Plants short, 1-2 m tall, leaves opposite, petiole short, 4-6mm, leaves leathery, elliptic or Obovate, 3-6cm long, 1.5-3cm wide, apex obtuse, base cuneate, surface dark green, glabrous, abaxially grayish green, densely velutinous. Cymes axillary, flowers 1-3, about 2cm in diameter, there are red, pink, white, http://www.cnefs.com "> rose red, shaped like plum blossoms, all over the mountains, colorful. Young branches are often red, densely pilose. Purple berries, globose or ovoid, covered with branches, up to 1.4cm in diameter, with persistent sepals at the top, nipple-shaped, sweet and edible, flowering from May to July and fruiting from July to September.

Medicinal value:

Myrtle has the functions of nourishing blood, stopping bleeding, astringent intestine and solidifying essence. Myrtle not only has rich nutritional value in its fruit, but its root can also be used as medicine, with flat medicinal properties, sweet taste, promoting blood circulation and dredging collaterals, converging and stopping diarrhea, treating rheumatic bone pain and low back pain, and its leaves also have medicinal value. When I was young, whenever my family had diarrhea, my mother would go to the mountain to pick myrtle leaves and boil water as herbal tea to drink, the effect is quite good.

Myrtle shrubs are many in the wild of Guangdong and Fujian mountains, with opposite leaves and reddish flowers in summer. Purple fruit shaped like a pomegranate after flowering. There is a Cantonese dialect called "Wannianzi". Between summer and autumn, the seed is like a small pomegranate, which is blue in color, purple in juice and sweet in taste. Shepherd boys often pick and eat it, but it is rare in the market.

There are also common peaches, and Lianwu (local name Panghui pu peach), which is also a plant of the myrtle family.