Hypericaceae
Yellow cow wood
Cratoxylum cochinchinense
- Family
- Hypericaceae
- Genus
- Cratoxylum
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Common names
By language (5)
- Cantonese
- 黃牛木
- Chinese
- 黃牛木, 黄牛木, 蕉笼木, 黄牛茶, 黄芽木
- English
- Yellow cow wood
- Thai
- ติ้วเกลี้ยง
- Vietnamese
- Lành ngạnh nam, Lành ngạnh, Thành ngạnh
Synonyms
- Ancistrolobus brevipes Turcz.
- Ancistrolobus ligustrinus Spach
- Cratoxylum biflorum (Lam.) Turcz.
- Cratoxylum carneum Kurz
- Cratoxylum chinense (Hance) Merr.
- Cratoxylum hypoleuca Elmer
- Cratoxylum lanceolatum Miq.
- Cratoxylum ligustrinum (Spach) Blume
- Cratoxylum myrtifolium Blume
- Cratoxylum petiolatum Blume
- Cratoxylum polyanthum Korth.
- Cratoxylum polyanthum var. ligustrinum Blume
- Cratoxylum polyanthum var. ligustrinum (Spach) Dyer
- Cratoxylum polyanthum var. macrocarpum Boerl.
- Cratoxylum wightii Blume
- Elodes chinensis Hance
- Elodes pulchella Loudon
- Hypericum biflorum Lam.
- Hypericum carneum Wall.
- Hypericum chinense Retz.
- Hypericum cochinchinense Lour.
- Hypericum horridum Wall.
- Hypericum loureiroi K.Koch
- Hypericum pulchellum Willd.
- Stalagmites erosipetala Miq.
- Vismia cochinchinensis (Lour.) Spreng.
Photos
Photo: Cychk, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Roy Bateman, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Roy Bateman, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons ![Yellow cow wood: 黃牛木 Cratoxylum cochinchinense [香港動植物公園 Hong Kong Botanical Garden]](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/%E9%BB%83%E7%89%9B%E6%9C%A8_Cratoxylum_cochinchinense_-%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E5%8B%95%E6%A4%8D%E7%89%A9%E5%85%AC%E5%9C%92_Hong_Kong_Botanical_Garden-_%289207640244%29.jpg/500px-%E9%BB%83%E7%89%9B%E6%9C%A8_Cratoxylum_cochinchinense_-%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E5%8B%95%E6%A4%8D%E7%89%A9%E5%85%AC%E5%9C%92_Hong_Kong_Botanical_Garden-_%289207640244%29.jpg)
Photo: 阿橋 HQ, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons
![Yellow cow wood: 黃牛木 Cratoxylum cochinchinense [香港動植物公園 Hong Kong Botanical Garden]](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/%E9%BB%83%E7%89%9B%E6%9C%A8_Cratoxylum_cochinchinense_-%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E5%8B%95%E6%A4%8D%E7%89%A9%E5%85%AC%E5%9C%92_Hong_Kong_Botanical_Garden-_%289207640244%29.jpg/1280px-%E9%BB%83%E7%89%9B%E6%9C%A8_Cratoxylum_cochinchinense_-%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E5%8B%95%E6%A4%8D%E7%89%A9%E5%85%AC%E5%9C%92_Hong_Kong_Botanical_Garden-_%289207640244%29.jpg)
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.