There is a legend in Huangxian Folklore: In the early years, there were ten suns in the sky, and they originally came out one a day according to the rules, and everyone took turns to sit in the village. Later, they were tired of such a rigid life of following the rules, and they ran out of the sky together, and as a result, the ground was on fire, and people could not survive. At this time, a sharp archer named Yi stood up and fired nine arrows in a row, shooting down nine suns. The smallest one didn't look good, and burrowed under a wild vegetable and didn't come out. Yi waited for three days and three nights, and felt that not a single sun was cold or dark, so he packed up his bow and arrow and went back. The wild vegetable that saved the life of the sun is purslane, since then the sun sees purslane, it is extra illuminated, and the poisonous sun can not be sunburned purslane, and purslane sees the sun like seeing old friends, it always opens yellow flowers when the sun is in the middle, as if greeting the sun. After listening to this story, I deliberately observed that the purslane petals close in the morning and evening, and only at noon the petals unfold.
Purslane also has a foreign brother who loves the sun as much as it does, which is purslane, which is also a purslane plant of the purslane family, because it is native to Brazil, also known as purslane. In the Huangxian dialect, the large-flowered purslane is called "horse spider cauliflower", this is because the purslane stem and leaves are paved like eight-legged spiders, so the purslane Huangxian dialect is called "horse spider vegetable" ("spider" reads as it is, "happy spider" is read like this), and the large-flowered purslane is naturally called horse spider cauliflower. It is an annual fleshy herb with a flat or oblique stem, purple-red, multi-branched, thinner than the stem of purslane, thin cylindrical leaves, and a large difference from the purslane-like leaves, but all of them are fleshy.
The flowers are single or several clusters of branches, five single petals or heavy petals, the petals are bright in color, white, yellow, red, purple and other colors, because of its multi-variety of flower colors, also known as "pine leaf peony" and "dragon's whisker peony". Purslane likes a warm, sunny and dry environment, its syrupy leaves and stems can store a lot of water, even in an extremely arid environment, can still meet the sun, with a smile bloom, so the folk also call it "can't die", is a more suitable for rookies to get started with flowers, can raise it to death to count your skills! The flowers of purslane, like purslane, only open when there is sunlight, and the hotter the sun, the more colorful its flowers bloom. When the sun sets or is cloudy, its flowers will close, and even when there are clouds covering the sun, its flowers will also close, so it is called "sunflower" and "noon flower". It has a large number of flowers, colorful colors, drought tolerance and barrenness, is a good paved grass flower, in the park, beside the road, in the summer can be seen everywhere. It is also an ideal variety for hanging pots and raising flowers, with fleshy stems hanging outside the pot, and flowers opening to the sun, like brocade embroidery, which can add infinite interest to the living room. Its capsule is nearly oval in shape, and like purslane, it is cracked, the seeds are small, and after the fruit is split, the seeds fall into the ground or pots, and they can germinate on their own the next year without planting. The large flower purslane can also be propagated by cuttings, and it can live by pinching a section of the stem into the mud, which is really a kind of grass flower that is extremely spicy, but it is so beautiful that people stop for a long time.
Purslane whole herb can be used medicinally, has the effect of dissipating stasis and relieving pain, clearing heat, detoxifying and reducing swelling, and is mostly used for sore throat, burns, bruises, and boils. I have not heard that anyone has eaten purslane, but I weighed it, if this thing is pinched off the tender stem material for a cold mix, the taste should be good, but it is inevitable that there are cows chewing peonies, burning the piano and boiling cranes.
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