Chenpi is a common Chinese herbal medicine in life, which is mainly made from Rutaceae citrus and its cultivated varieties.

Before making Huangcheng orange into dried tangerine peel, we should first collect a certain amount and keep it well.

After that, clean the prepared orange peel and dry it naturally.

Citrus belongs to Rutaceae and Citrus. Sex likes warm and humid climate, and its cold tolerance is slightly stronger than pomelo, lime and sweet orange. The plants of Rutaceae and Citrinae are distributed between north latitude 16 ~ 37. It is a tropical and subtropical evergreen fruit tree (except Fructus Aurantii), and there are three genera of Fructus Aurantii, Citrus and Kumquat used for economic cultivation. Citrus grown in China and other countries in the world is mainly citrus.

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Citrus consists of roots, stems, leaves, flowers and fruits. Little tree. Single compound leaf, wing leaves are usually narrow, or only trace, the leaves are lanceolate, elliptic or broadly ovate, with different sizes, and the top is often notched. Midrib branches branch from the base to the vicinity of notch, at least the upper half of the leaf margin usually has blunt teeth or rounded teeth, and rarely the whole edge.

The leaves of leafy citrus are evergreen and single compound leaves, which are composed of leaf body and leaf wing. Leaflets are attached to the petiole. Different citrus varieties have leaves of different sizes and shapes. Roots are groups composed of taproots, lateral roots, fibrous roots and root hairs with extremely short ends, which are collectively called roots. Layered or propagated plants, rootless. The joint between the trunk and the root is called the root neck. Branches The branches of citrus are composed of trunk, main branch and lateral branch.

Fruit-shaped species, usually oblate to nearly spherical, have thin and smooth skin, or thick and rough skin, light yellow, vermilion or crimson, easy or slightly easy to peel off, more or less orange mesh, easy to separate mesh, usually soft, with large and empty stele, sparse and full petals, 7- 14, sparse and many, and thin or slightly thick capsule wall, soft.

The pulp is sour or sweet, or bitter, or has a special smell; Seeds are more or less numerous, sparse and seedless, usually ovoid, with narrow top and round bottom. Cotyledons are dark green, light green or occasionally nearly milky white, purple syncope, more embryos and less single embryos. The flowering period is from April to May, and the fruiting period is10-65438+February.