Huáng bǎi
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![A fully mature (150 yr) Phellodendron amurense tree. Huáng bǎi is typically harvested from trees 10 years old.](/Images/godic/202501/06/Phellodendron_amurense_JPG1b0144.jpg")
![Phellodendron amurense cross-section. For a younger specimen see](/Images/godic/202501/06/Phellodendron_amurense,_cut_wood0144.jpg")
Huáng bǎi (黄栢 or 黃栢, literally "yellow fir") or huáng bò (黄檗) is one of the fifty fundamental herbs of traditional Chinese medicine. Known also as Cortex Phellodendri, it is the bark of one of two species of Phellodendron tree: Phellodendron amurense or Phellodendron chinense.