Abstract: There are abundant resources of wild emblica(Phyllanthus emblica L.) inYunnan Province,China.They can be classified into six groups and thirty types.Among thesix groups,the globular group is the largest one,which accounted for 61.9% of the total investigated quantity.Its percent of fruit-bearing trees with single fruit weight more than 6 g isat a low level of 10%.Although there were a large number of the trees in the distributionzone,the average yearly yield is only 350～410 kg/hm2.Emblica fruit in Yunnan contained alarge amount of vitamin C and had a high SOD activity(769 mg/100 gFw and 293 units/g Fwrespectively),but its percent of tannin and fibre were higher than those of the Fujian's forthe sampling in December.The fruits mature gradually from December to March of the fol-lowing year.It's suggested that the fruit-picking should be done in winter.