Abstract:The common used chemically-synthetic chelator EDTA (ethylene diamine tetraacetate ) is hardly degradable and expensive in mobilizing soil heavy metals for enhancing phytoextarction. Using three botanic leaf juices including Masson pine(Pinus massoniana Lamb), Slash pine(Pinus elliottii Engelm)and Embelia(Embelia Laeta L. Mez), the mobilization of Cd, Pb and Zn in two agricultural soils contaminated by lead-zinc mining wastewater and different in soil pH from Qingyuan and Lechang District, Guangdong Province of China, was studied in batch experiments in comparison with EDTA in 1.25, 2.50 and 5.00 mmol?L-1. Results showed that the studied botanic juices had different mobilization ability to Cd, Pb and Zn of the soils,and decreased in the order: Embelia> Slash pine> Masson pine. The concentrated Embelia 1∶1 juice (fresh leaf weight: water weight) were significantly higher than that of 1∶2 juice in mobilizing soil heavy metals. The mobilization ability for Pb and Cd of the studied botanic chelators was significantly lower than EDTA, but they exhibited a strong mobility for soil Zn. The mobilized amount of Zn by Embelia 1∶1 and Slash pine1∶2 from acid Qingyuan soil were significantly higher than that by 5.00 mmol?L-1EDTA and the other natural botanic chelators were higher than 2.50 mmol?L-1 EDTA. For neutral Lechang soil, the mobilization rate of heavy metals were generally lower than that for the acid soil. Based on these results, Embelia leaf extract can be a promising natural botanic chelator.