Location: Guangdong, Fujian, Guangxi and other places. Medicinal plants are mainly used to treat impotence, nocturnal emission, infertility due to uterine cold, irregular menstruation, abdominal cold pain, rheumatic joint pain, and muscle weakness.
Morinda officinalis is a perennial vine shrub. Strong adaptability, like warm climate, should be sunny, avoid dry water, with good drainage, loose soil, rich humus sandy loam or yellow loam is better. Clay does not grow well. Thick soil grows well.
Extended data
plant morphology
Morinda officinalis (original variety): vine; The fleshy root is not located in the intestinal tract, and the root meat is slightly purple-red, and it is purple-blue after drying; The young branches are covered with coarse hairs of different lengths, and then fall off and become rough. Old branches are glabrous, angular, brown or blue-black.
Leaves are thin or slightly thick, papery, brown after drying, oblong, ovoid oblong or obovate oblong, 6- 13cm long, 3-6cm wide, sharp or short at the top, pure at the base, round or wedge-shaped, entire, and sometimes with sparse short hairs.
At first, the upper surface is sparse, close to coarse hair, then it becomes hairless, the midvein rises straight, some are prickly or curved, and the lower surface is hairless or the midvein becomes thinner and shorter. There are (4~)5~7 lateral veins on each side, which bend upward and are connected at the edge or near the edge, and the reticular veins are obvious or not.
The petiole is 4~ 1 1 mm long, and the lower part is densely covered with short coarse hairs; Stipules are 3~5 mm long, with flat top, dry film and fragile shedding.
Inflorescences 3~7 are arranged in an umbrella shape at the top of branches; Peduncle is 5~ 10 mm long, pubescent, with elliptic or linear involucre at the base; There are 4~ 10 flowers on the head; Flowers (2~)3(~4) cardinal number, without pedicels; Calyx is obconical, and the lower part is connate with adjacent calyx.
There are 2~3 wavy teeth at the top, one tooth on the outside is extra large, triangular-lanceolate, sharp or blunt, and the other teeth are extremely small; Corolla white, nearly bell-shaped, slightly fleshy, 6~7 mm long, crown tube 3~4 mm long, narrow at the top, pot-shaped, eaves usually 3-lobed, sometimes 4-lobed or 2-lobed, lobes oval or oblong, tops protruding outward, hooked inward and short outside.
The inner surface has a thick beard from the middle to the throat; Stamens as many as corolla lobes, inserted at the lateral base of lobes, filaments extremely short, anthers dorsifixed, about 2 mm long; The style is elongated, the stigma is oblong or hidden in the style, and the stigma is 2-lobed or 2-lobed without swelling. The ovary has (2~)3(~4) cells, each cell 1 ovule, which is inserted in the lower part of diaphragm.
The multi-flowered or single-flowered drupe is red, oblate or nearly spherical when it matures, with a diameter of 5 ~11mm; Drupe has (2 ~) 3 (~ 4); Nucleation triangle, lateral arch, hairy, seeds covered inside 1, fruit stalk is very short; The seeds are black at maturity, slightly triangular and hairless. The flowering period is from May to July, and the fruit ripens in10 ~165438+1October.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Morinda officinalis