Sugar gum tree alias:? Lampstand tree, hard show, silver, big dwarf,? Duck feet tree (Yunnan), buy? Bieding, Maidanbe (Dai),? Lamp frame tree, basin frame, Yingtai wood (Hainan), talon wood, Elephant bark tree, nine-degree leaf and fat pig leaf (Guangxi). ?
Evergreen trees, usually about 10 m high. The bark is grayish white, the buds are green and milky white. 3-8 impeller-shaped leaves are obovate-oblong, oblanceolate or spoon-shaped, 7-28 cm long and 2- 1 1 cm wide, the top is obtuse or conical, the base is wedge-shaped, and there are 30-50 pairs of lateral veins, several of which are parallel and the leaf edges are connected. Cymes are terminal and flower-shaped. Calyx short, lobes 5, ovoid, pubescent on both sides; The corolla is saucer-shaped, the crown tube is 6 ~ 10 mm long, it is swollen above the middle, the inner surface is pubescent, and there are 5 corolla lobes covering the left side. Lobes oblong or oval, 2 ~ 4 mm long and 2 ~ 3 mm wide. Stamens 5, inserted in the enlarged crown tube; Disk cup-shaped; The ovary consists of two free carpels, densely pilose, and the stigma is 2-lobed at the top. ? Follicles are linear, with two free follicles, slender as beans, 20 ~ 57 cm long and 2 ~ 5 mm in diameter. Seeds oblong, reddish brown, ciliate at both ends.
Born in sparse forests, roadsides and ditches in hilly areas below 650 meters above sea level. ? Distributed in Taiwan Province, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi and southern Yunnan, it is also cultivated. ?
Has antitussive, expectorant and anti-inflammatory effects. For chronic bronchitis and whooping cough.