八角茴香（Star anise）.doc

八角茴香（Star anise） Star anise National Chinese herbal medicine: Star Anise [B] a Ji name o Hu Xi have a n and [alias] anise, aniseed, spiced with anise [source] Illicium verum, Illicium verum, Illicium, verum, Hook., F., with fruit as medicine. Autumn harvest, dry standby. Evergreen trees, up to 20 m; bark gray to reddish brown, irregularly irregularly branched; densely branched and horizontally spreading. Leaves alternate; petiole stout, ca. 1 cm; leaf blade leathery, elliptic obovate to elliptic oblanceolate, length 5 ~ 11 cm, width 1.5 ~ 4 cm, apex acute or short acuminate, base narrow cuneate, margin entire, above the shiny and transparent oil, the rusty pilose. Spring flowers solitary in axils of leaves; tepals 7 to 12, the number of round, imbricate, round pink to dark red; stamens 11 ~ 20, 1 ~ 2 rows round; carpels 8 ~ 9, free, round shaped arrangement. Fruiting pedicels stout, 3~4 cm long, hooked, curved. Aggregate fruit radiation stellate, diameter of about 3.5 cm, reddish brown, apex obtuse follicles beaked. Each follicle contains 1 seeds, the seeds were flat oval, red brown or gray brown, shiny. Pleasant to the eye and sweet in taste. [habitat] born in warm moist valleys. Distributed in Fujian, Guangxi, Guangdong, Guizhou, Yunnan and other provinces and autonomous regions. Mostly for artificial cultivation. [culture] likes the warm and humid environment, young shade plant Xi yang. Suitable for the cultivation of acid soil in the central and southern parts of china. Propagate by seed. In 1 ~ February in 11 ~ December. After seed, the seeds and the 4, 5 times the yellow water mixing, so that every seed wrapped in a layer of mud, put out the shade moisturizing to sowing, with 5 inch spacing drill in high ridge, a distance of about 1 inches, covering 1 to 1.5 inches. Immediately after emergence, a 3 feet high transmittance, 30 ~ 40% shading shed. Second years, according to 12 x 12 feet, row spacing plant. [chemical composition] fruit containing volatile oil 4 t