Serissa foetida "Kowloon" Medicinal and the roots and leaves

and the roots and leaves have a long place in traditional Chinese medicine as a cardiac and general tonic

funnel-shaped bloom spreads about one and three-quarter inches across

where the plant had been grown for many years after the botanist and plantswoman Mary Henry collected the original somewhere in the South

the loquat opens clusters of small

lending some laboratory weight to the old uses

Serissa foetida "Kowloon" Medicinal and the roots and leavesSerissa foetida 'Kowloon', now more correctly placed as Serissa japonica, is a small, dense evergreen shrub known by a string of affectionate names: snow rose, tree of a thousand stars, and Japanese boxthorn. The genus stands alone in the coffee family, Rubiaceae, a surprising cousin to coffee, gardenia, and pentas. The unlovely species name foetida records the one fault, since bruised leaves and roots give off a faintly unpleasant smell, a small