女貞耐寒性好，耐水濕，喜溫暖濕潤氣候，喜光耐蔭。為深根性樹種，鬚根發達，生長快，萌芽力強，耐修剪，但不耐瘠薄。對大氣污染的抗性較強，對二氧化硫、氯氣、氟化氫及鉛蒸氣均有較強抗性，也能忍受較高的粉塵、煙塵污染。對土壤要求不嚴，以砂質壤土或粘質壤土栽培為宜，在紅、黃壤土中也能生長。對氣候要求不嚴，能耐－12℃的低溫，但適宜在濕潤、背風、向陽的地方栽種，尤以深厚、肥沃、腐殖質含量高的土壤中生長良好。

Prunella cold resistance, water wet, hi warm and humid climate, hi light shade. Deep-rooted tree species, developed fibrous roots, rapid growth, strong sprout, resistant to pruning, but impatient barren. Strong resistance to air pollution, strong resistance to sulfur dioxide, chlorine, hydrogen fluoride and lead vapor, but also to endure higher dust, smoke and dust pollution. Strict requirements on the soil, with sandy loam or clay loam cultivation is appropriate, in red, yellow loam can grow. Strict requirements on the climate, resistant to -12 ℃ low temperature, but suitable for moist, leeward, sunny place planted, especially in deep, fertile, high humus content of soil growth well.

花期6～7月。圓錐花序頂生，長10～15厘米，直徑8～17厘米；總花梗長約4厘米，或無；苞片葉狀，線狀披針形，無柄，早落，小苞卵狀三角形；小花梗極短或幾無；花萼鐘狀，長約1.5毫米，4淺裂；花冠管約與裂片等長，裂片4，長方卵形，長約2毫米，白色；雄蕊2，著生於花冠管喉部，花絲細，伸出花冠外；雌蕊1，子房上位，球形，2室，花柱圓柱狀，柱頭淺2裂。

Flowering from June to July. Panicles terminal, 10 to 15 cm long, 8 to 17 cm in diam .; total pedicel 4 cm long, or absent; bracts leaflike, linear-lanceolate, sessile, caducous, bracts ovate-triangular; Pedicel very short or few; calyx campanulate, ca. 1.5 mm, 4-lobed; corolla tube ca. as long as lobes, lobes 4, oblong, ca. 2 mm, white; stamens 2, Tube throat, filaments thin, out of the corolla outside; pistil 1, ovary superior, spherical, 2 rooms, style columnar, stigma shallow 2 crack.

果期8～12月。漿果狀核果，長橢圓形，長6～12毫米，幼時綠色，熟時藍黑色。種子1～2枚，長橢圓形。乾燥果實卵形成橢圓球形，有的微彎曲，長5～10毫米，直徑3～4毫米。外皮藍黑色，具皺紋；兩端鈍圓，底部有果柄痕。質堅，體輕，橫面破開後大部分為單仁，如為雙仁，中間有隔瓤分開。仁橢圓形，兩端尖，外面紫黑色，裡面灰白色。無臭，味甘而微苦澀。以粒大、飽滿、色藍黑，質堅實者為佳。

Fruit from 8 to December. Berry-like drupe, oblong, 6 to 12 mm long, green when young, ripe blue-black. 1 to 2 seeds, oblong. Dried fruit eggs form oval, some micro-curved, 5 to 10 mm long, 3 to 4 mm in diameter. Routine blue-black, with wrinkles; blunt ends at both ends with stalk mark. Quality is strong, light body, most of the single-ended after the cross-section break, such as double-Jen, the middle of every separate 瓤 apart. Ren oval, both ends of the tip, outside purple, gray inside. Odorless, sweet and slightly bitter. To grain size, full, color blue, solid quality is better.

甘、苦，涼;歸肝、腎經

Gan, bitter, cool; belong to the liver, kidney

Dizzy, should be made early white, depending on the material dim flowers, Yin fever.

女貞子酒。女貞子250克，低度白酒500克。藥洗淨，放入酒中浸泡3～4週，每次飲1小杯，日服1～2次。功效：滋補肝腎，活血化瘀。適用人群：腰腿酸軟疼痛、心煩失眠、口燥咽乾、面色潮紅、手足心熱、舌紅、脈弦細數者。

Ligustrum wine. Ligustrum lucidum 250 grams, low liquor 500 grams. Wash the medicine into the wine soak for 3 to 4 weeks, each time to drink a small cup, served 1 to 2 times. Efficacy: nourishing liver and kidney, blood circulation. Applicable to the crowd: waist and leg soreness, upset insomnia, dry mouth and throat, pale flush, hand, foot and heart hot, red tongue, pulse string count.