Forsythia is a deciduous shrub belonging to the genus Forsythia of Oleaceae. It usually blooms in early spring. When it blooms, it is full of golden yellow, gorgeous and lovely. It is an excellent flowering shrub in early spring.Its plant height can grow to more than 3 meters, and its branches are clustered.Leaf blade opposite, ovate or ovate-elliptic.Corolla is yellow, fruit is ovoid, long elliptic.Flowering is from March to April and fruiting is from July to September.
Forsythia is cool, bitter taste, but has a high medicinal value, in clinical medicine on the use of more.The medicinal part is mainly its fruit.Wherein the shell contains coumarin, vitamin P, forsythol, oleanolic acid, saponin and the like.If you want to use it in medicine, you should use it under the doctor's instructions to avoid bad consequences.
It does not have very high requirements for the environment. It is tolerant to poor soil and drought. It has very loose requirements for the soil. It can grow normally in slightly acidic, alkaline, and neutral soil environments.However, if the light is sufficient, the soil is fertile and the environment is deep, the growth will be better.
