Clove belongs to Oleaceae, deciduous shrub or small tree. Widely distributed in Zanzibar, Madagascar and other places, it is named Harbin City Flower because of its slender nail-like flower tube and fragrant smell, and it is also a famous garden flower. The inflorescence is huge and luxuriant, with elegant and fragrant color, strong habit and simple cultivation. Therefore, it is widely cultivated and applied in gardens. Ancient poets used cloves to write their own thoughts. Because lilacs bloom in clusters like knots. It's called "Ding Knot, Hundred Knots Flowers".
Alias: Lilac, Bai Jie, Lilac, Chicken Tongue. Cloves are made of unopened buds, which are dry. It looks like a round-headed nail. The flavor is rich and bitter, and it becomes mild after cooking. Clove is an aromatic stomach tonic, which can promote the secretion of gastric juice and enhance gastrointestinal peristalsis.
Flora of China, Volume 6 1, Syringa of Oleaceae? Lilac: Deciduous shrub or small tree. Branchlets subcylindric or quadrangular, lenticellate. Winter buds are covered with bud scales, and terminal buds are often lacking. Leaves opposite, simple, sparsely compound, entire, sparsely divided; Petiole. Flowers bisexual, cymes arranged in panicles, terminal or lateral, pumped out at the same time or after leaves; Having pedicels or pedicels; Calyx small, bell-shaped, 4-toothed or irregularly toothed, or subtruncate, persistent; Corolla is funnel-shaped, saucer-shaped or nearly round, with 4 or 5 lobes, spreading or nearly upright, and buds arranged in tweezers; 2 stamens, inserted from the throat of corolla tube in the middle of corolla tube, contained or extended; The ovary is 2-loculed with 2 pendulous ovules in each locule. Style filiform, shorter than stamens, stigma 2-lobed. Fruit is a capsule, slightly flat, 2-loculed, loculed; The seeds are flat and winged; Cotyledons ovate, flat; Radicle upward. Chromosome cardinal number x=23, or 22,24. Lilac plants in Oleaceae are also commonly called lilacs.