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Ostryopsis nobilis
Yunnan Tiger Hazel is a shrub native to mountain slopes in southwestern Sichuan and northwestern Yunnan, China, where it forms thickets at about 1,500 to 3,000 m. It is grown mainly as a wild or medicinal plant rather than an ornamental, and it needs full sun and good drainage.
Ostryopsis nobilis (Chinese: 滇虎榛; pinyin: dian hu zhen) is a shrub species in the genus Ostryopsis found in China. It is an endemic Chinese medicinal plant. It forms thickets on sunny mountain slopes between 1,500 and 3,000 m. It is native to southwestern Sichuan and northwestern Yunnan.
Two cyclic diarylheptanoids, named ostryopsitrienol and ostryopsitriol, can be isolated from the stems of O. nobilis.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ostryopsis nobilis 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.
