Canarium album, commonly known as Chinese Olive, is a tree.Trees, 7-25(-35) m tall. Branchlets 5-6 mm in diam., tomentose with yellowish brown hairs when young, glabrescent. It is an evergreen plant with imparipinnate leaves. The leaves are arranged opposite one another, leaflets 3-6 pairs; blades lanceolate, elliptic, or ovate, 6-14 * 2-5.5 cm, glabrous or abaxially sparsely setose on veins They are lanceolate with entire margins. The flowers are cup-shaped. The plants bloom from April to May. The flowers are arranged in panicles. Canarium album is native to south China and Vietnam.
Successive purification of the extract from Canarium album and Euphorbia nematocypha, guided by antihepatotoxic activity in primary cultured rat hepatocytes, led to the isolation of brevifolin, hyperin, ellagic acid and 3,3'-di-O-methylellagic acid as hepatoprotective
compounds.