One plant a day: oil point grass
Poetry flowers
Look at the front and back mirrors of the flowers, and the flower surfaces are mirrored.
New post embroidered grosgrain, double golden partridge.
--Wen Tingjun, "Bodhisattva Man"
One flower for one
Oil point grass, scientific name purple sea onion. The flowers are white or green with many purplish-red spots. Large patches of oil-spotted grass densely form a sea of purple flowers, from which purple sea onion gets its name.
Plant care
Oil point grass can be used as an indoor ornamental plant, like to be wet, but also tolerant to drought and like sunlight but do not sun more, otherwise the purple spots of flowers are not obvious, affecting ornamentation.
Botanical anecdotes
When the oil point grass does not bloom, a large bush like wild onions, not good-looking, but a little patience, when the flowers bloom, the small purple flowers, grateful to decorate your eyes.
Plant value
The yellow flower oil point grass plant is beautiful in shape, the leaves are beautiful, and the inflorescence shape is peculiar, which can be used for the greening of rockeries. Yellow flower oil point grass whole grass and root into the medicine, can treat tuberculosis cough. Oil point grass has the effect of tonifying weakness and relieving cough, and decoction can be taken internally.
Chinese name: Oil point grass
Latin scientific name: Tricyrtis macropoda Miq.
Boundary: The plant kingdom
Phylum: Phylum angiosperm
Order: Monocotyledonous plants
