1、 Shape difference

Daphne genkwa is a deciduous shrub, 0.3-1m high, with many branches. The bark is brown, and the branchlets are cylindrical. After drying, there are many wrinkles on the surface. The young branches are purplish brown or yellowish green, with light yellow pubescence, and the old branches are purplish brown or purplish red, glabrous

Clove is a small tree or shrub, up to 5 meters high, with gray or grayish brown bark and thick twigs

2、 Blade difference

The leaves of Daphne genkwa are opposite, rarely alternate, papery, ovate or ovate lanceolate to elliptic oblong, about 3-4 cm long and 1-2 cm wide. The apex is short acuminate or acute, and the base is blunt circular or wide wedge-shaped, whole, green above, dark brown after drying, light green below, yellowish brown after drying

Cloves are leathery or thick paper, oval and then kidney shaped. Compared with the former, cloves are much wider, about 2-14cm long and 2-15cm wide. Apex acute or convex, base cordate to suborbicular or broadly cuneate. The color is similar to the former