Introduction: There is a plant in the countryside, it can be eaten when it is young, it can be used to make brooms after aging, seeds can be medicated, and the whole plant can be used as feed. It also has 2 of its brothers in the genus that are also excellent forage. This plant is the skin of the earth, and today let us know the skin of the earth and its brothers wood skin and alkaline skin.
The vast countryside is a world of wild plants. Many wild plants in the countryside have changed from pure wild to domesticated cultivation by farmers because of their good use and practical value, and have thus become economic projects for farmers in some places to support their families and become rich. Today we are going to talk about the skin of the earth is such a plant.
▲ I can make broom skin
It is an annual herb of the genus Quinoa in the family Quinoa, native to Europe and the central and southern regions of Asia. China's three northeastern provinces, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, Xinjiang and other places have a distribution or output. Because the skin can be used to tie brooms, many rural people prefer to call the skin a broom seedling. The nickname of broom seedling even overrides the Chinese scientific name of the ground skin.
The plants are densely packed, ovate to spherical, inverted or oval in shape, branched and thin, with short soft hairs, and semi-woody at the base of the stem. The stem of the skin has a very tough plant fiber, which can be collected when mature, dried and tied with rope to make a broom for cleaning the yard. The peasants took the brooms tied up to the market for money, and one of them could sell for about seven or eight yuan. Recently, there have been media reports that in 2011, it was included in the national poverty flag, and in 2017, it was included in the Bahrain Left Banner of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region-level deep poverty area, and in the Beijing-Mongolia poverty alleviation cooperation policy, the "broom seedling" of the skin has become an unusual poverty alleviation key. From 2018 to 2019, Beijing and Shunyi District, the city and district levels helped Bahrain Zuoqi invest 42.3 million yuan in cooperation funds and built 23 broom seedling processing poverty alleviation workshops. Help the farmers in Bahrain's left banner to use broom seedlings to sweep the road out of poverty and get rich. In March 2020, Bahrain Left Banner successfully withdrew from the list of nationally poor counties.
▲ The skin of the ground that changes color after autumn
Ground skin in the north and south of China can be cultivated, the skin is not only can only do broom, young skin stems and leaves contain high carotene and potassium, copper minerals, per 100 grams of skin contains calories 65 kcal, is a good semi-wild vegetable. Wash and chop the young stems and leaves of the ground, add the right amount of salt, dip them with fine powder and steam them. Eat with garlic puree, pepper oil and other condiments, which can be used as both a dish and a rice. After blanching the young stems and leaves of the skin, according to personal taste, different seasonings are added to the cold mix of different flavors. The skin after blanching is also a good filling for buns, dumplings, zygotes, etc., and the flavor is good regardless of meat. Of course, the skin can also become the top ingredient of the fresh soup, the skin added to the staple fabric, can be made into the skin of the dish cake, the skin of the nest and the steamed bun of the skin of the skin, the taste is also very unique.
The fine leaves in the skin of the earth are soft and tender green when they are young, and turn red and purple in autumn, which is very ornamental. Fine-leaved ground skin can be used for garden cultivation, arranging flower beds, flower landscapes, flower clusters, flower hedges, and can also be potted, decorating and decorating the halls and conference venues of the home. The seeds of the skin contain 15% oil, and the oil extracted from the seeds of the skin can be both edible and used in industry. The seeds of the earth skin can be used as the seeds of the earth skin to help us strengthen our human body.
▲ Selfie of the wood skin
The brother of the earth skin is a semi-shrub, and the height of the plant is 10-80 cm. The branches are yellowish brown or dark brown, and the branches are yellowish brown or reddish. The leaves are alternate, striped, slightly flattened, sharply pointed or tapering at the apex, sessile but with villi on both sides. The flowers are both sexes or both females, and the flowering period is from July to August, and the fruit period is from August to September. Woody skin is drought-resistant and hardy, has a strong ability to adapt to drought, grows in sandy land, hillsides, light saline and alkaline land and desert, and has distribution and output in Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Ningxia, Gansu, Xinjiang, Tibet and other places in North China, Northeast China and Northwest China. Woody skin has a rich leaf volume and a very high crude protein content, which can be used as a high-quality pasture grass. Grazing woody skin has many benefits for large livestock and sheep to recover their body fat in spring and to fertilize in autumn.
Another sibling of the skin is alkaline skin, which is distributed in the northeast, north China, northwest china and Henan, and can be used as a medium forage. Alkaline skin early or middle and early growth, generally emerging in April, sessile leaves alternate, lanceolate, inverted lanceolate or strip lanceolate, full margin, apex pointed or slightly blunt, hairy or hairless on both sides. The stem is erect, the basal branch grows obliquely, yellow-green or slightly reddish, and the upper end of the branch is densely covered with white soft hairs, and the whole plant will turn red after autumn. Alkaline skin is often saline or desert grassland, sheep love to eat when green, pigs and poultry can eat when young, and livestock like to eat in spring and winter.
▲ Alkaline skin
Friends, where do you have skin cultivation? Have you ever seen a ground, a wood, and a alkaline skin? What do you call the skin of the earth? Welcome to leave a message to share!