Arabic tea likes warm, moist, sunny, loose and humus-rich soil. It is easy to be cultivated in greenhouse in cold area, and the overwintering temperature is 8℃.
morphological character
Shrub, 1-5 m high; Branchlets densely covered with small white lenticels. The leaves are opposite, thick papery or thin leathery, oval or narrow oval, 4-7 cm long and 2-4 cm wide, with short and blunt apex, narrow wedge-shaped base and obvious dense serrations at the edge; Petiole is 3-8 mm long. Cymes are solitary leaf axils, short and long 1.5-2 cm.
Peduncle stout, 5- 10 mm long, 2-4 times branched, short and firm, less than 3 mm long; Three-flowered cymes, with short pedicels, length of 1-3 mm, and fruit slightly increased to 5 mm; Flowers small, 3-5 mm in diameter, white; Calyx 5, triangular-ovate, about 65438 0 mm long; Petals 5, oblong or rectangular, attached to the outside of the disk; Filaments obvious, slightly shorter than corolla.
Ovary and disk are free, 3-loculed, 2 ovules per locule, short style and 3-lobed stigma. Capsule is orange-red, cylindrical, about 8 mm long and 3-4 mm in diameter, with mature seeds per room 1 grain; The seeds are dark brown, spiny, narrow and long, obovate, 3-4 mm long, round or oblique at the top, narrow and tail-shaped at the bottom; The aril is orange-red, surrounding the lower part of the seed, extending downward, up to 3 mm long, and showing a single wing shape.