''Cephalotaxus koreana'', commonly called the Korean plum yew, is a
conifer
Conifers are a group of conifer cone, cone-bearing Spermatophyte, seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms. Scientifically, they make up the phylum, division Pinophyta (), also known as Coniferophyta () or Coniferae. The division contains a single ...
ous shrub or small tree in the family
Taxaceae
Taxaceae (), commonly called the yew family, is a coniferous family which includes six extant and two extinct genera, and about 30 species of plants, or in older interpretations three genera and 7 to 12 species.
Description
They are many-bran ...
. It is native to
Korea
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,
Japan
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and northeast
China
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. Some botanists consider it synonymous with ''
C. harringtonii''.
''Cephalotaxus koreana'' contains
catechin-7-O-glucoside
Catechin-7-''O''-glucoside is a flavan-3-ol glycoside formed from catechin.
Natural occurrences
Catechin-7-''O''-glucoside can be isolated from the hemolymph of the European pine sawfly ('' Neodiprion sertifer''). It also occurs in relatively ...
.
[Inhibitors of Osteoclast Differentiation from Cephalotaxus koreana. Kee Dong Yoon, Doc Gyun Jeong, Yun Ha Hwang, Jei Man Ryu and Jinwoong Kim, J. Nat. Prod., 2007, 70, pages 2029–2032, ]
References
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Flora of China
Flora of Japan
Trees of Korea
Flora of Asia
koreana
Taxa named by Takenoshin Nakai