Aralia elata Root Bark and Its Extracts:Applications and Study!

Habit,Form and Physical Characteristics of Aralia Root.

Aralia elata Root Bark Extract Aralia elata Miq Seem Aralia mandshurica Rupr. et Maxim. Aralia chinensis var. glabrescens Franch.Sav C. K. Schneid.Aralia spinosa var. glabrescens Franch.Sav.Dimorphanthus elatus Miq photo picture image
Deciduous
large shrub or small tree
coarse, thick stems with prickles
few side branches
suckers from base and spreads
Summer Foliage
Life cycle tree (Z3-8)
Flowers white (summer)
Size 20-40'
Light sun-part shade
Cultural notes prefers moist soil
Habitat:grow at area of latitude 1000m mountain fields.Woodland Garden; Secondary; Sunny Edge; Dappled Shade; Shady Edge;
Scope:grow at Heilongjiang,Jilin,Liaoning,Jia Mu Si,Mu Dan Jiang and north east of China, Russia. Aralia elata Root Bark Extract Aralia elata Miq Seem Aralia mandshurica Rupr. et Maxim. Aralia chinensis var. glabrescens Franch.Sav C. K. Schneid.Aralia spinosa var. glabrescens Franch.Sav.Dimorphanthus elatus Miq photo picture image

Physical Characteristics
A decidious Tree growing to 6m by 6m at a medium rate.
It is hardy to zone 4 and is frost tender. It is in flower from August to September. The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) and are pollinated by Insects.
The plant prefers light (sandy), medium (loamy) and heavy (clay) soils, requires well-drained soil and can grow in nutritionally poor soil. The plant prefers acid and neutral soils. It can grow in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade. It requires moist soil.
Shrubs or small trees, 2-5(-8) m tall, andromonoecious. Branches armed with sparse prickles. Leaves 2(or 3)-pinnately compound, with a pair of accessory leaflets at each division of rachis; petiole to ca. 50 cm, glabrous or pubescent, prickly; petiolules 3-5 mm; leaflets 5-11(-13) per pinna, broadly ovate to elliptic-ovate or narrowly ovate, 5-12(-19) * 2.5-8 cm, membranous, papery, or subleathery, abaxially glabrous or light yellow or gray pubescent, sometimes or more densely pubescent on veins, or sometimes glabrescent, adaxially sparsely strigose, secondary veins 6-10 pairs, raised abaxially, conspicuous adaxially, base cordate to subcordate or rounded, margin serrulate, apex acuminate. Inflorescence a terminal panicle of umbels, densely yellow-brown or gray pubescent, unarmed; primary axis 1-5 cm; secondary axes 20-35 cm; ultimate axes with a terminal umbel of bisexual flowers and 1 to several lateral umbels of male flowers; bracts persistent, lanceolate to subulate, 2-5 mm, sometimes ciliate; umbels 6-15-flowered; pedicels 1-10 mm, densely pubescent. Ovary 5-carpellate; styles 5, free or united to middle. Fruit globose, ca. 3-4 mm in diam.; styles persistent. Fl. Jul-Sep, fr. Sep-Dec. 2n = 24*.
Usually a large shrub, up to 5m high.The huge leaves are double pinnate, up to 80cm long. The stems and the leaves are covered with prickles. The cream white flowers are growing in large panicles and followed by black berries. In autumn the leaves are coloured in yellow. only for warm conditions.
This is a large shrub or small tree of up to 5-7 m in height or higher, with trunk diameter of 10-12 cm.
The trunks are upright, not branching, sometimes just with a few short branches at the top, covered with numerous sharp and firm thorns of 1 to 10 mm long. The light brown thorns are flat and conical.
The young bark is grey or slightly brown with well-defined leaf scars surrounded by nimbus of thorns. The leaf scars are wide, crescent-shaped, almost wrapping the branch. The bark of old plants is grey, with deep crevices. Terminal buds are greater than the side ones and are surrounded by a nimbus of thorns.
It grows individually or in small groups in the undergrowth of mixed and coniferous woods; at the ridges and by the foothills; in glades and at the edges of forests. In the deciduous forests, it grows on rocky exposures and precipices, especially thrives in slashes and old burned areas after a forest fire where it forms impenetrable brushwoods. It grows rapidly. Can be found at 600-700 m above sea level in mountains.
It is winter-hardy and prefers full light.
Excellent late season honey plant. Valuable medicinal plant. Used for planting of the unique greenery.
Distribution in the Russia's Far East. Primorsky and Khabarovsky Krais, Southern Sakhalin Island, Southern Kuril Islands - Kunashir, Shikotan. Aralia elata Root Bark Extract Aralia elata Miq Seem Aralia mandshurica Rupr. et Maxim. Aralia chinensis var. glabrescens Franch.Sav C. K. Schneid.Aralia spinosa var. glabrescens Franch.Sav.Dimorphanthus elatus Miq photo picture image

Cultivation details
Prefers a good deep loam and a position in semi-shade but it also succeeds in a sunny position. Requires a sheltered position. Plants are hardier when grown on poorer soils. Prefers an acid soil.
Dormant plants are hardy to at least -15. The young growth in spring, even on mature plants, is frost-tender and so it is best to grow the plants in a position sheltered from the early morning sun. A very ornamental species, there are a number of named varieties. It is usually a single stemmed shrub, spreading by means of suckers. This species is closely allied to A. chinensis.

Propagation
Seed - best sown as soon as ripe in a cold frame. Stored seed requires 3 - 5 months of cold stratification. Germination usually takes place within 1 - 4 months at 20. When large enough to handle, prick the seedlings out into individual pots and grow them on in light shade in a greenhouse for at least their first winter. Once the plants are 25cm or more tall, they can be planted out into their permanent positions, late spring or early summer being the best time to do this. Root cuttings 8cm long, December in a cold frame. Store the roots upside down in sand and pot up in March/April. High percentage.
Division of suckers in late winter. Very easy, the suckers can be planted out direct into their permanent positions if required.

Features:
Leaf - large(2-4 foot long), doubly pinnate, alternate leaves.
Flower - small white blooms in large panicles from July to August.
Fruit - small black drupes.
Bark - rough and gray with prickles.