What does 琼花 mean in English? and Leycesteria formosa #3

What does 琼花 mean in English?

I know it's a type of flower but don't know what... =/
It's not extinct lol.
One of my relatives have this in her backyard. I don't know what's the english word for it because we use it to make tea. One of my cousins drank it and she went from around 100/100 give or take to 20/20 vision. Some chinese herb store also sells this type of flower (dry type). The reason I want to know it in English because I want to reasearch it.


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Answer by Daisy
It's a very rare flower that is now extinct

Here is a picture:

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Leycesteria formosa #3


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Caprifoliaceae - Himalayas and southwestern China
Himalayan Honeysuckle, Flowering Nutmeg, Himalayan Nutmeg, Pheasant Berry
Shown: Inflorescence displaying buds and opened flowers

"Leycesteria is a genus of flowering plants in the honeysuckle family Caprifoliaceae, native to temperate Asia in the Himalaya and southwestern China.

"It contains six or seven species of shrubs with short-lived stems with soft wood, growing to 1-2.5 m tall. One species, Leycesteria formosa (Himalayan Honeysuckle or Flowering Nutmeg), is a popular garden shrub in Britain.

"Leycesteria formosa (Himalayan Honeysuckle, Flowering Nutmeg, Himalaya Nutmeg or Pheasant Berry) is a deciduous shrub in the family Caprifoliaceae, native to the Himalaya and southwestern China.

"Leycesteria formosa...has soft, hollow, upright green stems 1-2 m tall, which only last for 2-5 years before collapsing and being replaced by new stems from the roots. The leaves are opposite, dark green, 6-18 cm long and 4-9 cm broad, with an entire or wavy margin. The flowers are produced on 5-10 cm long pendulous racemes; each flower is small, white, subtended by a purple bract. The fruit is a soft purple-black berry 1 cm diameter, eaten by birds which disperse the seeds." (Wikipedia)

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Photographed in San Francisco Botanical Garden - San Francisco, California

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