Community Flora No. 50: Duck Plantages Duck Plantages is a common weed in the south, because it generally grows in humid riverside watery land, ducks by the water like to feed on its fresh stems and leaves

Flora of the Community No. 50: Duck Plantagenets

Duck plant is a common weed in the south, because it generally grows in the humid riverside watery land, the ducks by the water like to use its fresh stems and leaves as food, so it is called "duck plant (zhí) grass". The appearance of the duck plant is absolutely fairy-level, when it does not bloom, it is like a small bamboo green vine plant, emerald green and refreshing, has its own elegant charm, and when the flower blooms, two blue flying petals, one petal bends down to small white petals, plus yellow flower buds, white filigree, the whole flower is like a small butterfly that spreads its wings, beautiful like a little elf, hooking people's souls, making people unforgettable. The shape of the plant from the flowers to the branches and leaves has nothing to do with the duck, and the color is still the rare sky blue among wildflowers, which is more fresh and vulgar.

Chinese name: Duck Plantages

Latin name: Commelina communis

Aliases: Orchid grass, bamboo leaf grass, green bamboo, green butterfly, light bamboo leaf, three-pod vegetable, triangle vegetable, orchid, bamboo leaf vegetable, bamboo grass, bamboo knotweed, blue flower, blue cauliflower, cockscomb, wild butterfly flower, half-day lotus

It grows on the side of the road, on the edge of ditches and in the shade and wet of the wilderness, and is easy to collect. The taste is bland. The young stems and leaves are succulent and can be used as vegetables, and are collected from May to June for stir-frying or soup, or steamed with noodles.

The flowers are polyflorescences, apical or axillary, hermaphroditic, the upper two petals are blue, the lower one is white, the flower buds are Buddha flame bracts, green, and there are 6 stamens. Flowering occurs from May to September.

Duck plants bloom for a long time, from summer to autumn, but the flowering period of each flower is very short, from the time it blooms to the time it fails, it takes less than a day, or even a day - so in English they are called dayflowers, some of which have a feeling of dying.

In Japanese, this blue-flowered grass is called "dew grass", and the dew disappears as soon as it sees the morning light - and the duck planthopper flower also opens with dew in the morning and withers at noon, which is fleeting in beauty, which is just in line with the aesthetics of the Japanese "material mourning", so although it is a wildflower, it is deeply loved and pitied by people.

Duck plant plant has duck plant blue pigment, which can be extracted as a dye, and a kind of blue paper is produced in Shiga Prefecture, Japan, which is submerged in this dye with paper.

Sweet, slightly bitter, cold. Can clear heat, detoxify, diuretic. It is a good medicine for reducing swelling and diuresis, detoxification and detoxification, and has a good effect on stye, pharyngitis, tonsillitis, cervical erosion, and abdominal snake bites.

Duck plant is widely distributed, grows widely, likes humid environment, has a peculiar flower type, the flowers are blue and eye-catching, has a certain ornamental value, and can be used as a ground cover plant cultivation ornamental application.

The flower language of the duck plant: hope, ideal.

Praise:

Yang Bao's fence,

Thin-winged Shu Qing is about to fly.

A few mistakes will be fanned,

I know that I have misidentified my mind.

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