枳椇别称:拐棗、蛮子梨、枳栱子、金鉤子、鷄距子、甜半夜等。枳椇子系鼠李科植物枳椇的干燥果实或种子。产地:我国分佈极广,北自河北,南达广东、贵州、云南皆有分布。植物形态:为落叶乔木,高达3—5丈。树皮灰黑色。叶膜质,有长柄,卵形或心状卵形,先端尖,基部阔圆形,3脈,边缘有锯齿,间或全缘,光滑。花淡绿色,夏月开放。果实为圆形或广椭圆形,紫褐色,生于肥厚、扭曲、肉质的花序枘上;种子圆形而扁平,为浓褐色,有光泽。采制:通常在大暑——立秋前后成熟,其肉质的花 Another name: Crooked dates, barbarian pears, scorpions, gold hooks, chickens from the child, sweet midnight and so on. Gardenia is a dried fruit or seed of a plant of Rhamnaceae. Origin: China is very widely distributed, north from Hebei, south of Guangdong, Guizhou and Yunnan are all distributed. Plant morphology: deciduous trees, up to 3-5 feet. Bark gray and black. Leaf membranous, long-handled, ovate or cordate-ovate, apex pointed, base broadly rounded, 3-veined, margin serrate, interstitial or entire, smooth. The flowers are light green and open in summer and months. The fruit is round or broad-elliptic, purple-brown, born in hypertrophy, twisting, fleshy inflorescences; seeds are round and flat, thick brown, shiny. Production system: usually mature in the great heat - before and after the beginning of autumn, its fleshy flower