Ma Ying Dan'ssays: is there a smelly, smelly lantana, jinfeng alias, etc.Flower is beautiful, our country garden often cultivated for ornament.Medicinal root, leaf, flower, has qingrejiedu, fights the pain, the functions of relieving itching effect;Can treat malaria, tuberculosis, analysis, mumps, tuberculosis, stomach ache, rheumatism bone pain, etc.

Ma Ying Dan's morphological characteristics

Shrubs erect or trailing, 1-2 m tall, sometimes vines, up to 4 meters;Stem branches were square, pubescent, usually with short and barb pierced.Leaves simple, opposite, knead lousy after strong smell, leaf blade ovate to oblong, oval 3-8.5 cm long, 1.5 5 cm wide, apex acute or acuminate, base heart-shaped or cuneate, margin with obtuse teeth, the surface is rough wrinkles and pubescent, have small bristles on the back, lateral veins 5 right;Petiole about 1 cm long.

Inflorescence 1.5 2.5 cm in diam.;Peduncle stout, longer than petioles;Bracts lanceolate, long as calyx 1-3 times, have external hirsute;Calyx tubular, membranous, about 1.5 mm long, apex with a very short tooth;Corolla yellow or orange, shortly after the flowering into deep red, corolla tube ca. 1 cm, both sides have fine hair, 4-6 mm in diameter;Ovary glabrous.Fruit round, ca. 4 mm in diameter, black-purple when mature, bloom all the year round.

Ma Ying Dan's geographical distribution

Tropical American origin, China Taiwan, fujian, guangdong, guangxi and saw yisheng.Often grown between 80-1500 meters of the sea beach and empty areas.The world are distributed in the tropics.Growth habit, like light, like warm, humid winter needs to keep in 5-6 ℃ temperature above.

The main value of Ma Ying Dan

Lantana is a poisonous plant.TCM holds that the "taste bitter cold".Stem leaf and fruit contain damage metabolic toxicity, such as toxicity has a considerable effect on mammals, birds eat the fruit does not have a problem commonly, but if people or cattle, sheep eating Ma Ying Dan toxic part, will cause chronic poisoning!

Livestock produce chronic poisoning, after be being fed by main symptoms become quite weak, and can produce after severe diarrhea, constipation, fecal after decomposition is contained in the blood, so the color is deep and stench.There will be other unstable pace, eye nasal secretions increase, fever heat, and can produce allergic to light;Gallbladder paralysis, hepatic bile secretion from damage, can cause a jaundice symptoms, renal tubular necrosis or even death finally lead to kidney failure.

Ma Ying Dan says although there is no roses so romantic, also is not so noble moral integrity, Holly but its use value is other flowers can't surpass, play a big role in the treatment of stomach disease, rheumatism, so we can't always compare the advantages and the faults of others, enlarge advantages can see other good, the flowers are so people.