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Ehretia microphylla, synonym Carmona retusa, also known as the Fukien tea tree or Philippine tea tree, is a species of flowering plant in the borage family, Boraginaceae
Ehretia microphylla is a shrub growing to 4 m height, with long, straggling, slender branches. It is deciduous during the dry season. Its leaves are usually 10–50 mm long and 5–30 mm wide, and may vary in size, texture, colour and margin. It has small white flowers 8–10 mm in diameter with a 4–5 lobed corolla, and drupes 4–6 mm in diameter, ripening brownish orange. The plant occurs widely in eastern and south-eastern Asia from India, Indochina, southern China, and Japan, through Malesia, including the Australian territory of Christmas Island, reaching New Guinea, mainland Australia at the Cape York Peninsula, and the Solomon Islands. The plant is popular in Penjing in China. The leaves are used medicinally in the Philippines to treat cough, colic, diarrhea and dysentery
درختچه دمنوش فیوکین یا چای فیوکین گونه ای درختچه ای از خانواده گاوزبان است
این گیاه بومی مناطق گرمسیری آسیا از هند تا چین و حتی استرالیا و جزایر سلیمان است
در طب سنتی از این گیاه دمنوش درست میشود که برای درمان سرماخوردگی، گلودرد، دردهای شکمی و اسهال کاربرد دارد
همچنین چون این درختچه رشد ارتفاعی کمی دارد برای ساخت بونسای و درختچه های کوتوله زینتی از آن استفاده میشود
