Red Shining Stars - Cypress Vine
蔦蘿松(拉丁學(xué)名:Quamoclit pennata (Desr.) Boj. )旋花科一年生纏繞草本植物。單葉互生,羽狀深裂,裂片線形,細(xì)長(zhǎng)如絲。聚傘花序腋生,著花數(shù)朵,花從葉腋下生出,花梗長(zhǎng)約寸余,上著數(shù)朵五角星狀小花,鮮紅色,花期7—10月。蔦蘿花清晨開花,太陽(yáng)落山后,花瓣便向里卷起,成苞狀。蒴果卵圓形,果熟期不一致,種子黑色,有棕色細(xì)毛。蔦蘿松可入藥,具有清熱消腫功效,能治耳疔、痔瘺等。
Cypress Vine (Scientific Latin Name: Quamoclit pennata (Desr.) Boj.) is a twining annual herb in the Convolvulaceae family. Pinnate elongated simple leaf with the alternate arrangement, as long and thin as silk. Verticillaster, axillary, flowers grow from under the axils of leaves, pedicel length of about an inch, with a great number of pentagonal star-shaped bright red flowers, blooming from July to October. It blooms in the morning, and the petals roll inward into a bract after the sun goes down. Ovoid capsule matures in different periods, black seed has brown hairs. It can be used as medicine with the effectof clearing heat and detumescence to treat the furuncle of external auditory meatus, and hemorrhoids complicated by anal fistula, etc.