Hello friends, today to introduce you to a plant, this plant is now in the countryside in the wild is particularly conspicuous, yellow, climbing on other plants to grow, far away from the past, a yellow. Do you know this plant?
Let's take a closer look at what this plant looks like, that's it, you see it climbing and growing on the ghost needle grass, but we can't find its roots, we can't see its leaves, only see the tentacle-like things climbing on the ghost needle grass.
This plant is called Silkworm Seed, which grows wildly all over the mainland, so the name is different from place to place, and the aliases are Zen Zhen, Bean Parasitism, Bean Yama King, Yellow Silk, Yellow Silk Vine, Golden Silk Vine, etc. Friends, what is the name of your hometown?
It is an annual parasitic herb with a very slender stem and no leaves, often wrapped around soybeans, flax, ramie, peanuts, potatoes, and plants of the legumes, Asteraceae, and Tribulus family. It has no roots of its own, but relies on parasitizing the stems of other plants to absorb nutrients.
In the countryside in the field, wasteland, under the forest, and crops in the wild growth, if it parasitizes on the soybean, it will absorb the nutrients of soybean plants, resulting in soybeans slowly withering and dying, so this kind of silk in the eyes of farmers is a harmful plant, hate it to the bone, see will be pulled out.
But the reproductive ability of the silkworm seed is very strong, it can reproduce through seed propagation and propagation of two ways to reproduce, in the autumn, the mature seeds fall on the ground, through the wind to bring to different places, dormant overwintering, to the next year encountered the right temperature and humidity will germinate, seedling roots protrude into the soil, germs protrude from the soil, the formation of filamentous silk seeds.
The seeds of the silk seed have a very good medicinal value, in many prescriptions have its existence, due to the limitations of the platform here is not convenient to introduce, I will share its value and role to the comment area, friends, you can also find it on your own network.
It is a good medicine for the kidneys, liver and spleen, and is clinically mainly used in kidney deficiency and low back pain, impotence sperm, frequent urination, uterine cold infertility, and kidney yin and yang deficiency of dark stool.
Friends, if you have this wild silk seed in your hometown and have a need for it, you can also go to the wild to pick it, and its fruit is gradually ripening. Well, today's introduction to the silk seed here, if you have a better understanding and insight of the silk seed, you are also welcome to leave friends in the comment area to share. If you also like rural plant knowledge, remember to follow me and share rural plant knowledge with you every day.