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Magnolia bark has traditionally been used in Eastern medicine as analgesic and to treat anxiety and mood disorders. [ 2 ] [ 6 ] In traditional Chinese medicine , magnolia bark is called Houpu and is most commonly taken from two species, Magnolia obovata and Magnolia officinalis . [ 7 ]
The compound exists at the level of a few percent in the bark of species of magnolia, the extracts of which have been used in traditional Chinese and Japanese medicine. In addition to magnolol, related lignans occur in the extracts including honokiol , which is an isomer of magnolol.
Magnolia-bark Magnolia officinalis: Magnoliaceae: tree medicinal bark Horehound: Marrubium vulgare: Lamiaceae: perennial herb culinary, tea, medicinal Chamomile: Matricaria chamomilla (and related species) Asteraceae: perennial herb: culinary, tea, medicinal, fragrance: flowers Tea tree oil: Melaleuca alternifolia: Myrtaceae: tree or tall shrub ...
The bark is thick and brown, but does not fissure. The leaves are broad, ovate, 20–40 cm long, and 11–20 cm broad. The flowers are fragrant and 10–15 cm wide, with 9–12 (rarely to 17) white tepals, and appear from May to June. The two varieties are: Magnolia officinalis var. officinalis has leaves with an acute apex.
Magnolia denudata is a rather low, rounded, thickly branched, and coarse-textured tree to 30 feet (9.1 m) tall. The leaves are ovate, bright green, 15 cm long and 8 cm wide. The bark is a coarse, dark gray.
Eucalyptus gunnii, commonly known as cider gum, [5] is a species of large tree in the flowering plant family Myrtaceae. It is endemic to the island of Tasmania , Australia. It has mostly smooth bark, lance-shaped to egg-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of three, white flowers and cylindrical to barrel-shaped fruit.
Magnoliids, Magnoliidae or Magnolianae are a clade of flowering plants.With more than 10,000 species, including magnolias, nutmeg, bay laurel, cinnamon, avocado, black pepper, tulip tree and many others, it is the third-largest group of angiosperms after the eudicots and monocots. [3]
Magnolia is a large genus of about 210 to 340 [a] flowering plant species in the subfamily Magnolioideae of the family Magnoliaceae.The natural range of Magnolia species is disjunct, with a main center in east, south and southeast Asia and a secondary center in eastern North America, Central America, the West Indies, and some species in South America.