Description

Rosa laevigata Michx. Evergreen climbing shrub, up to 5 m high; Rosa laevigata Michx.Branchlets stout, loose living flat curved prickles, glabrous.Lobules leathery, usually 3, sparse 5;Leaf blade elliptically ovate, obovate or lanceolate ovate, margin sharply serrate, bright green above, glabrous below, yellowish green;Stipules free or base connate with petiole, lanceolate, margin serrate.Flowers solitary in leaf axils, **7 cm in diameter;Petals white, broadly obovate, apex slightly concave;Fruit pear-shaped, obovate, sparse subglobose, purple-brown, outside densely spiny.Flowering from April to June, fruiting from July to November.Solid fine shrinking urine, solid collapse stop band, astringent bowel stop diarrhea.Used for spermatorrhea, enuresis frequency, disintegrating, chronic diarrhea and dysentery.Water weng hua, medicine name.From the end of may to the beginning of June, pick the branches with buds, wet them with water and stack them for **5 days, so that the buds will naturally fall off and dry in the sun until they are *0% dry.Its taste bitter, slightly sweet, cool.Can clear heat and detoxification, remove heat and fluid, eliminate stagnation and dampness.