Salacia Oblonga Extract 20:1 by Heking

Salacia is a climbing shrub of the genus Pentasaurus in the family Celastraceae. It is also known as wild yellow fruit, wild tangerine, Ridge Vine, and chicken egg yellow. The branches are slender and densely covered with tumor-like small lenticels. The leaves are thin and leathery, with a short acuminate tip, a nearly round or broad cherry blossom base, a wavy margin, and no obvious fine teeth. The flowers are pale green and clustered in clusters on axillary pedicels. The flower is nearly round, outward-curved, cup-shaped, and nearly pentagonal. The male filaments are extremely short and located at the edge of the flower disk. The anthers are split and laterally lobed. Most of the ovary is hidden within the flower disk. The style is cylindrical and truncated at the tip. The berries are nearly spherical. The outer pericarp is woody when dry, with fine nodules or smooth. Most seeds have sharp edges.

The flowering period of the Salacia  is in December, and the fruiting period is from January to February of the following year.

The Salacia  is mainly distributed in the southeastern part of Yunnan Province, China, and is also found in Xishuangbanna. It mostly grows in the shrubbery on the slopes at an altitude of 600 to 1,600 meters.