Cyclocarya Paliurus Tea

Cyclocarya paliurus (wheel wing nut), popularly known as the “sweet tea tree”, has long been renowned for its health-giving qualities. The tree’s young leaves contain a wealth of compounds such as polysaccharides, amino acids and flavones as well as several trace elements such as zinc, selenium and germanium, and have a broad range of therapeutic and nutritional values.

This kind of tree survived from Glacier and only be found in China, which was called as “Panda in plant kingdom”,even in China the tree was recorded as rare species.

Cyclocarya is a genus of flowering plants in the family Juglandaceae, comprising a single species Cyclocarya paliurus (Qing Qian Liu or wheel wing nut), formerly treated in the genus Pterocarya as Pterocarya paliurus. It is native to eastern and central China.

It is a deciduous tree growing to 30 m~40m tall. The foliage is similar to Pterocarya, with pinnate leaves 20–25 cm long with five to eleven leaflets, the terminal leaflet present; the leaflets are 5~14 cm long and 2~6 cm broad. The flowers are catkins; the male (pollen) catkins are produced in clusters (not singly as in Pterocarya), the female catkins 25~30 cm long at maturity, bearing several small winged nuts with a circular wing 2.5~6 cm diameter right round the nut (instead of two wings at the sides as in Pterocarya).

With it’s magic functions, it was called as “Third Tree” in the medical field after the Willow and Taxus chinensis

Cyclocarya paliurus (wheel wing nut), popularly known as the “sweet tea tree”, has long been renowned for its health-giving qualities. The tree’s young leaves contain a wealth of compounds such as polysaccharides, amino acids and flavones as well as several trace elements such as zinc, selenium and germanium, and have a broad range of therapeutic and nutritional values. The best-quality leaves are found in the mist-wreathed mountains area of central part of China, where local people refer to the tea made from its leaves as a gift of health bequeathed to them by Avalokiteśvara.