Many flower friends have lived in the countryside, and in the countryside there are usually some beautiful wildflowers, weeds and bonsai trees behind the house, farmers will also dig out the beautiful wildflowers, and then plant them in pots to watch, and sometimes they can reproduce some, their vitality will generally be more tenacious than flowers such as junzi orchid, hanging orchid, wen bamboo, gardenia and so on. Most wild plants can also produce peculiar flowers, such as the wild grass of purple flower, its flowers are particularly beautiful, and the plants are quite peculiar.
In fact, there is also a weed in the countryside that is also quite peculiar, and the weeds we are familiar with generally cannot hang fruits, and this weed can grow some small red fruits, which is very beautiful.
I remember when I was a child, I often played at the foot of the mountain in the countryside, when the living conditions were not good, I often looked for wild fruits at the foot of the mountain as snacks, wild fruits usually include snakeberries, mountain lychees, sweet fruits, etc., once I saw a weed can hang fruit, it is a plant we want to talk about in this issue, called "grass ephedra", from a distance its fruit is like "snakeberry", now it is also rare, very precious.
There may be many flower friends have also seen grass ephedra at the foot of the rural mountains, although they have seen it, but do not necessarily know its name, in fact, we can see many wild plants in our lives, but because we are generally not interested in wild plants, we have not understood, so we have missed a lot of valuable plants, and even stepped on precious protected plants, which is a pity, so we can properly understand it.
About Grass Ephedra
Grass ephedra is a plant of the ephedra family, but also a herbaceous shrub plant, such a plant height is only 20 cm, but when it grows vigorously, it may be 40 cm tall, because it is distributed in many areas, flower friends in different regions give it different names, so grass ephedra has ephedra, hua ephedra and other names. Grass ephedra has woody stems, but they are relatively short, sometimes becoming "creeping", which looks quite peculiar.
May-June is the flowering period of grass ephedra, female bulb flowers when ripe fleshy red, and so on in August-September, the plant will produce some small seeds, it can produce some small fruits, these small fruits are actually "fleshy bracts", according to research, fruit alkaloid content is relatively low, to rumors have a certain "toxicity", but this statement is not accurate.
The preciousness of grass ephedra
Most of the grass ephedra for the environment is very adaptable, according to the data, it has been listed as Jilin Province 3 key protection wild plants, the mainland also prohibits the collection of wild resources, now it has become a "medicinal plant", that is, medicinal herbs, plants contain alkaloids, is used to extract ephedrine main plants, its alkaloid content is second only to horsetail ephedra, with less woody stems, easy to process and refine characteristics, with such plants are very precious, we have to protect, if you encounter grass ephedra again, do not destroy!
Growing environment
Wild grass ephedra generally grows in plains, rivers, under hillsides, grasslands and other locations, likes cool, dry environment, but also has a certain degree of cold tolerance, in sandy loam, saprophyll soil can grow well, the reproduction method is generally divided into seed propagation and branch propagation.
The amount of wild grass ephedra is very small, but because it can be made into "Chinese medicinal materials", the demand on the market is large, so the plant also has economic value, many farmers want to go to artificial cultivation, and the artificial cultivation of grass ephedra is also good, also has use value, if the planting management is good, its yield is not low.
Dear friends, have you ever seen this kind of grass ephedra?