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Today, the plant that the author shares, it can be said that farmers hate the most plant, because it is a parasitic plant, which grows on other plants, although it has no roots and no leaves, but has developed vines to wrap around other plants to absorb nutrients and survive.
It is precisely because of its unique growth characteristics that where it exists, the crops that are entangled by it are basically unharvested, or even completely withered, how can such a plant not be annoying? But the older generation who understand it is extremely cherished, what is it precious?
This plant is the rootless vine that everyone in the countryside is very familiar with, and it gets its name because it has no roots. In addition, the vine without mother, the grass without leaves, the grass without roots, the vine without nets, the vine without the head, the vine without the master, the vine with hand tie, the noodle vine, the golden silk vine, etc. are all its aliases.
Rootless vine is a rootless vine of the Lauraceae family winding herbaceous plants, it likes to parasitize on leguminous plants the most, by attracting the nutrients of the leguminous family, and leguminous plants are light to reduce yield, serious death, so often called "Bean Yama King" by the farmer's uncle, the farmer friends hate it the most.
In addition, we also grow on the slopes of rural areas, shrubs, forest edges, sparse forests, wastelands, etc., and where there are rootless vines, there is a possibility of a large tea medicine near it, this large tea medicine is a poisonous plant, and when picking rootless vines, you can not pick them near the large tea medicine, be careful of poisoning.
Because rootless vine is more suitable for a warm environment, drought tolerant but not cold-tolerant, it is mainly distributed in Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan and other provinces and regions in the mainland. In particular, it is more common in Guangdong and is distributed in all parts of Guangdong.
Although the rootless vine has no roots, it lives very moist, because its stem is extremely developed, and extremely long, yellow and thin, often borrow the stem to cling to other plants, we often see some plants in the wild covered with dense like spider webs, this is the rootless vine.
The rootless vine blooms in the summer with small white flowers and then spikes with sparse flowers, and the fruit is also very small and spherical. Whenever the rootless vine fruit matures, its stem has basically withered, and the fruit hangs on other plants, and is often thought to be the fruit of a plant.
Don't underestimate this fruit, it is a well-known dodder seed in the field of traditional Chinese medicine, with very high medicinal value, with the effect of nourishing the liver and kidney, solidifying sperm and shrinking urine, and stabilizing the fetus, and has an effect on impotence and spermatozoa, waist and leg pain, frequent nocturnal urination, chills and cold, menorrhagia, and unfavorable urination.
Because dodder has a good tonic effect on our kidneys, it is called "cashew nut" by many people, people who understand it will pick it every year, dried it to make tea and drink many benefits, it used to be very common in the countryside, and now it has become scarce.
Dear friends, is there this kind of rootless vine in your hometown? It is a plant without roots and leaves, but the fruit is extremely precious, known as "cashew nut", no one paid attention to it in the past, and now it is difficult to find. If you meet in your hometown, please cherish it.
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