In the arid grasslands, salinized wastelands and sandy dry slopes of north and northwest China of the mainland, there is a tribulus plant, which is often called camel or stinky gourd, which has economic value. Today I will talk about some of the situations of this plant.
First, the botanical characteristics of camel pony
1. Name and classification status
Camel Peng is the official middle name, this name is from the "Seed Plant Name", in the "Flora of China" determined as the official middle name; The scientific name is Peganum dharmsala Linn., which was officially named and published in 1753; other names include stinky guduo, stinky bone, etc.; It belongs to the genus Perennial paved herbaceous plants of the genus Tribulus in the family Tribulus in plant taxonomy.
2, distribution and growth environment
Camel Peng is mainly distributed in Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, Xinjiang and other provinces and regions in the mainland; It usually grows in arid grasslands in desert areas, salinized wastelands on the edges of oases, and sandy dry hillsides.
3, appearance characteristics
One is a perennial herb, less than 70 cm tall; Root majority, up to 2 cm thick; The stem is multi-branched at the base, spread out on the ground, smooth and glabrous.
The second is that the leaves are alternate, fleshy, smooth, 3-5 fully lobed, lobed linear lanceolate, up to 3 cm long; The leaflet is linear.
The third is the flower solitary branch end, opposite to the leaf, 5 sepals, lanceolate, 5 petals, yellow-white, inverted ovate oblong, 15 stamens, flowering in May-June;
The capsules are nearly spherical, 0.6–1 cm in diameter, brown, three-lobed, seeds dark brown, triangular, and ripen in July-August.
Second, the main use of camel puffs
First, camel leaves that dry up after frost can be used as winter and spring feed for livestock; Its branches and leaves have poor palatability in the green period, and livestock are not happy to eat, mainly because the stems and leaves of this period contain alkaloids such as halmin, halman, and halol, which are excited by the central nervous system of the mammals fed (bǔ) after feeding, which is easy to cause paralysis. Although the nutrient content of crude protein and other nutrients is reduced, the branches and leaves after frost have a certain effect on camels, sheep, horses, mules and other livestock to spend a long winter and spring.
Second, its seeds can be used as red dye; Seed oil can be used industrially; The leaves are crushed to wash clothes and substitute for soap.
Third, studies have shown that the whole plant of Camel Peng contains Camel alkali, which has a certain regulatory effect on cell growth, cell division and cell permeability, and soaking wheat and tomato seeds with Camel Peng's boiling solution can make it ripen early and increase yield.
In addition, camel canopy has a strong drought resistance, cold resistance, strong vitality, large ground coverage, is a good soil and water conservation plant; It is also a green manure plant; Its whole herb has medicinal properties and is readable in specialized medical books.