Description
Crustaceans (scientific name: Mytilaria laosensis Lec.) is a plant of the genus Conchophyllum of the Hamameliaceae family. It is an evergreen tree with a height of 30 meters. The branchlets are stout, glabrous, with enlarged nodes and ring-shaped stipule marks. The leaves are leathery, broadly ovoid, whole, or the apex of the young leaves are 3-lobed, 10-13 cm long and 7-10 cm wide. The fleshy spike-like inflorescence is terminal or axillary, single, inflorescence axis length 4 cm, inflorescence stalk length 2 cm, glabrous; ovary inferior, 2-loculed, 6 ovules per locule, style 2-3 mm long, milky stigma sudden. The capsule is 1.5-2 cm long and the exocarp is thick. The seeds are 1-1.2 cm long, 5-6 mm wide, brown, shiny, and the hilum is white.
It is distributed in Laos, northern Vietnam and China; in China, it is distributed in the southeast of Yunnan (Yanshan, Xichou, Pingbian), the west of Guangxi and the west of Guangdong. Prefer fertile, moist and well-drained places. Fast-growing tree species, more light-loving, shade-tolerant seedlings, there are many seedlings under the forest, there are also many young trees in forest edges and open areas, in natural forests, they are often upper forests, and grow into tall trees in lower mountainsides and valleys.
The wood is diffuse-porous wood, light reddish brown, and can be used for furniture, construction, farm tools, plywood, interior decoration, wood floors, etc.; it is often planted in gardens and country parks. [3] In addition, shell vegetables not only have the ecological functions of conserving water, improving soil and improving soil fertility, but also can be used as the main fire prevention tree species for fire protection forest belts.
