Dalbergia odorifera

<body bgcolor="#eeeeee" leftmargin="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" topmargin="0"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td>Latin name:<br> Dalbergia odorifera<br> <br> Chinese name:<br> <img src="026_name.gif" alt="" height="21" width="57" border="0"><br> <br> Genus:<br> Dalbergia<br> <br> Family:<br> Papilionaceae<br> <br> Growth Habit:<br> Arbor<br> <br> Duration:<br> Multiperrenial<br> <br> Distribution:<br> South China<br> <br> Height:<br> The whole plant reaches 10 to 15m in height.<br> <br> Leaf:<br> 12 to 25cm in length, with 9 to 13 leaflet, rarely 7; stipe 1.5 to 3cm in length; stipule caducous; leaflet coriaceous, ovate or elliptical, those at the base always small and broad ovate, 4 to 7cm in length, 2 to 3cm in width, attenuate at the apex, obtuse, 10 to 12 lateral vines on both side, all vines are convex.<br> <br> Flowers:<br> Auxially panical, consistes of cymes, 8 to 10cm in length, 6 to 7cm in width; light yellow or corolla,<br> <br> Fruits:<br> Elliptic pod, lorate, 4.5 to 8cm in length, 1.5 to 1.8cm in width, with hair at the base, coriaceous pip, usu. 2 seeds, seldom 1.<br> <br> Blossom:<br> Jun. to Jul.<br> <br> Comments:<br> Heartwood of which is excellent matiral for furniture, the couterpart of whose root is employed as anodyne.<br> </td> </tr> </table> </body>