Hibiscus (scientific name: Hibiscus taiwanensis Hu) alias for a head hibiscus, Thousand Faces beauty, is a large deciduous shrub or small tree, height up to 3-8 meters high, growing at an altitude of 2000 meters above sea-leaved forests and plains, usually there is direct sunlight to grow. Phyllotaxis for alternate, thick paper, 3-5 lobed, lobes of broad triangular leaves 7-9 cm long. Woody stems, erect, whole plant with gray pubescence
Autumn and winter flowering, flowers hermaphrodite, axillary a single flower, the sepals 8, line,, bell-shaped corolla, when it is not open to white, pink or purple after becoming bloom. The fruit is a capsule, spherical, Velvet. Hibiscus is a plant belonging to the positive, you need strong sunshine and drought resistance, resistance to poor soil pollution. . For garden trees, hedges and water conservation. Hibiscus wooden clogs made available, the petals can be eaten fried fried manner after treatment, the roots can be used as medicine.
Hibiscus leaves
Chemical composition containing glycosides, phenols, amino acids, sugar, phlegmatic.
[Taste] cool, slightly acrid taste.
[Indications] Qingfei cooling, swelling and pus. For Hyperactivity cough, hypertrophic rhinitis, lymph node inflammation, appendicitis, carbuncle boils abscesses, acute otitis media, burns, burns.