Witnessed by: TCM

Japanese cherry (Prunus jamasakura), of the Rosaceae family. Deciduous mountain tree with smooth banded purple-brown bark, flowering pale pink with the young coppery leaves; native range: Hills and low mountains of Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu in Japan, and southern Korea. Globally recognized as yamazakura (山桜); ōhi (桜皮), bokusoku (樸樕) — the bark drug in Japanese, and Japanese mountain cherry, hill cherry in English. The part used is bark. Smooth, glossy, purplish-brown bark peeling in horizontal papery bands ruled with lines of breathing-pores; bitter and faintly astringent.

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