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Caragana sinica (Chinese Pea Shrub)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Caragana sinica (Chinese 金鵲根 : Jīn què-gēn) is a species belonging to the genus Caragana. Caragana sinica is known to produce the stilbenoid trimers α-viniferin, showing acetylcholinesterase inhibitory activity, and miyabenol C, a protein kinase C inhibitor and two stilbene tetramers kobophenol A, and carasinol B.
View Wikipedia Record: Caragana sinica

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Leaf Type [1]  Deciduous
Pollinators [1]  Bees
Scent [1]  The bark smells like liquorice.
Structure [1]  Shrub
Height [1]  4.92 feet (1.5 m)
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Predators

Lepidosaphes coreana (Korean comma scale)[2]

External References

Citations

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0