Seven-fingered peach
It is a shrub or small tree with milky stems and leaves, aromatic root bark, and densely covered with thick yellow hairs on the petioles and flower holders. Single-leaf, alternate morphology is largely variable, broad-ovate, tapering at the apex, finely serrated at the base or heart-shaped edges, full margin or 4-6 deeply lobed, coarse on both sides, densely covered with coarse hard hairs on both sides, 3-7 stem veins; the petioles are long and thick, the flower trays are spherical, and they grow in pairs on the leaf axils.
Five-fingered peach
The five-fingered peach is not a "peach", it is a plant belonging to the mulberry family, also known as "Cantonese ginseng". The production area is mainly in the Guangdong region, of which the Heyuan area is the most common. As the name suggests, there are "five fingers", and there are some fine hairs like peaches on the leaves, and the leaves look like the five fingers of people, so they get the name of "five-fingered peach".
In general, Guangdong regions like to use five-fingered peaches to cook soup, often with ribs. Due to the high summer temperature in Guangdong, often 36, 7 °C, so it is very necessary to cool off, Guangdong people are generally "wet", heavy humidity, moisture is also a common thing to do.
Five-fingered peach root
Pork bone broth with five-fingered peach root
Three-fingered peach is a degraded species of five-fingered peach
Three-fingered peach
One-fingered ficus is also called palm leaf fig, Buddha palm fig, coarse ficus, three-clawed fig, three-fingered Buddha palm fig, three-finger milk and so on. Seven fingers, five fingers, three fingers, and one finger all belong to the same rough leaf fig.
A finger of peach