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Caragana sinica
Also called Chinese Peatree
Caragana sinica is a shrub from the pea family native to China, grown as an ornamental and hardy in temperate gardens. It is best kept in full sun with well-drained soil, and it tolerates dry, poor soil once established.
Caragana sinica (simplified Chinese: 金鹊根; traditional Chinese: 金鵲根; pinyin: jīnquègēn) 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.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Caragana sinica by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
