The summer wind always blows for no reason.
If you are not careful, you will not blow the leaves of the plant upside down. The leaves of many plants are green on both sides, no matter how they are blown, their color is green and green, which is very eye-catching.
But there is a plant, but it is not so, it as long as the wind blows white, a piece of white flowers, it looks quite spectacular. Its blades are cyan above and white below. The ancients compared "up" to "heaven" and "down" to "earth", so this plant was commonly known as - azure white grass.
01 Azure White Grass Science Popularization
Celestial white grass is a perennial herb of the genus Rosaceae, its rhizome is relatively thick, spindle-shaped roots, and there is more than one rhizome, which has great value.
Its aboveground stem is a flower stem, generally a few centimeters to about 40 centimeters in height, with dense white cotton hairs on it. And its basal leaves, stems and leaves also have soft hairs on them, the color of these hairs is white, so when the wind blows, the leaves are flipped over, forming an "ocean" of white flowers.
The flowers of azure white grass are a kind of umbrella-shaped inflorescence, the flowers are more numerous, the diameter of the flowers is about 2 cm, there are white cotton hairs, the color of the petals is yellowish, very beautiful, the value is very large, and it can be potted.
02 The value of azure white grass
The value of azure white grass is very large, but in many texts, it is not called azure white grass, but turning white grass, because it turns white as soon as the wind blows.
1. Medicinal value. It is recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica", "Materia Medica Reading", "Origin of Materia Medica" and other classics, its entire plant can be medicated, can play a role in detoxification, hemostasis, swelling and other effects, of course, its role is still many, this article only lists a small amount of value.
Interested friends can buy the "Compendium of Materia Medica" to view, "Materia Medica" is a good book, a must-have for families, especially friends who have the opportunity to contact wild plants.
3. Edible value. Turning white grass is rich in starch, has been included in the "Rescue Materia Medica", is a good "wilderness saving plant", has a high edible value, its rhizome taste is relatively sweet, often dig its rhizome as a snack to eat, wash and peel off the epidermis to eat.
Its rhizomes can also be used to boil soup, chicken soup, pigeon soup, rib soup, etc., young stems and leaves can be blanched after cold mixing, frying and so on, is a very good wild vegetable, very popular in the market, high economic value.
4. Ornamental value. The flowers of the white grass are very beautiful, the leaves are white as soon as the wind blows, it is very distinctive, the ornamental value is extremely high, and it is often used as a potted plant, bonsai, etc., and the planting difficulty is very low.
03 Turning white grass planting technology
In China's Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Shanxi, Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places have grown, the distribution range is very wide, the adaptability is very strong, is a very easy to plant plants.
It can also grow on barren land, the soil requirements are not high, can choose bamboo root soil, humus soil, or rotten bark, grass roots and other mixed soil planting.
The requirements for moisture are slightly moist, can not accumulate water, proper drying is also OK, fertilizer can choose granular slow-release fertilizer, or farm manure, organic fertilizer and so on.
04 Concluding Remarks
Turning white grass is an extremely valuable plant, its rhizome resembles "ginseng", the wind blows white, the ornamental value is great, and the edible value and medicinal value are also very large, the economic value should not be underestimated, is a plant that can be developed in a large area.
When I was a child, I often went to the wild to play, if I saw this plant called "Azure White" (turning white grass), I must dig its roots as snacks to eat, pick its leaves as wild vegetables to eat, no matter how difficult it is, I have dug up a lot of white grass.
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