Introduction: Hello everyone, here is the farmer to see the farmer, every day to share the new things in the countryside, share the planting technology and the market. Today our theme is: the root is like a chicken leg, when I was a snack when I was a child, now it is a rare commodity, 10 yuan a pound.
The most valuable plant rhizome, everyone will definitely think of ginseng first in their minds. After all, ginseng is a well-known thing, and the longer it lasts, the more precious and valuable it becomes. And for those of us who know more about plants, the rhizomes of ginseng are not the most valuable. There are many plant rhizomes in nature that are extremely valuable and play an absolute role in a certain aspect and a certain field.
When I was a child, I used to follow the adults' butts into the mountains to work, and once I felt hungry, I would look around the mountains for food that I could eat, whether it was wild fruits or tree roots, as long as the adults knew and confirmed that they could eat, it would become a delicious snack for children. The value of these small snacks in the hearts of rural babies far exceeds that of thousand-year-old ginseng.
In the past, when the roots of the baby tree came to eat, there was a plant with a rhizome like a chicken leg, which was dug up and peeled off to be directly delicious. At that time we called it chicken leg grass, and the actual scientific name was turning white grass. This plant is rare at the moment, and some old people can still be seen selling its medicinal herbs in the market.
So what is the white grass? What kind of plant is it? It is a plant of the Rosaceae family, a perennial herbaceous grass that looks rough on the ground and turns its back white when it is blown off by the wind, and its name is derived from it. According to people who experienced hardships in those years, the white grass in the special period is a sought-after impact grain, which can be eaten by digging out the roots, and some people even use young seedlings as wild vegetables.
The most impressive thing for rural people about the white grass is not that the white grass will turn white, but the root that it hides in the ground like a chicken leg. This root is much more delicious than the young seedlings on the ground, peeling off the skin of the surface layer like a washed chicken leg, when I was hungry when I was a child, I often looked for this natural "chicken leg" as food.
To specifically understand the next white grass, the official saying, the white grass is generally basal leaves are 2-4 pairs, there are not many flowering, the lower part is often hypertrophied spindle-shaped, and the bottom is densely covered with white wool. Quote from "Saving the Wilderness Materia Medica": Turning white grass, out of the mountains of Junzhou. The seedlings are seven or eight inches tall, slender and serrated, the leaves are hard and thick, the back is white, and its leaves are slender like elm leaves, and yellow flowers, the roots are as large as fingers, three inches long, the skin is red and fleshy, and the two ends are pointed. There are also aliases for turning white grass, chicken leg root, chicken leg pulling, heavenly lotus, leaf white, chicken claw ginseng, turning white wilting and other aliases.
The value of turning white grass, at present from the perspective of social application, there are mainly 3 parts of the value, one of which is the medicinal value, which is recorded in many ancient books, and the "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that the white grass has the effect of clearing heat, cooling blood, detoxification, hemostasis and swelling. The second is ornamental value, which can be used for park greening or ornamental flower planting. The third is the edible value, which is also very common in the folk, with the spring white grass seedlings as wild vegetables, and the roots are rich in starch to fill the hunger or be used for processing other special products.
The value of this aspect is gradually reflected in society, and the white grass has become a rare commodity, some people buy it in order to taste it, some people buy it in order to eat a bite of wild vegetables, and some traders buy it with Chinese medicinal materials. The different values reflected in them, and the prices are also different. In the season, the young seedlings of turned white grass can be sold for a high price of 10 yuan per kilogram, which often attracts many farmers to dig in the mountains. Turning white grass is introduced here, I don't know if you know the white grass? Do you have white grass in your hometown? Welcome to leave a message to tell your views, this article is only the author's personal opinion, for reference only. Image from the web!