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What is Cistanche deserticola? Cistanche pictures.

Marie Schrader
2020-11-16 11:23:35
Fried petals is a common way to eat fresh lotus flowers, petals picked clean, on the side of the drain water, flour mixed with eggs, fried in the oil pan, fried to golden brown after fishing out. Fresh lotus can also make egg soup, adding some seasonings after cooking. You can also use lotus flowers to make pancakes, preferably flowers that have not yet fully opened. Or can be used to cook porridge, taste is also good.

1. What is Cistanche

Cistanche deserticola is a plant of the genus Cistanche of the family Orobanchaceae, also known as Cistanche and Cistanche. It is an endangered species. It is a tall herb, up to 40 to 60 centimeters in height. Most of it is underground.It is a parasitic plant at the root of Haloxylon ammodendron in the desert, its stem is relatively thick, fleshy, drought-resistant, and can also draw nutrients and water from Haloxylon ammodendron for its own growth, with the reputation of "desert ginseng".It is our country's traditional precious Chinese herbal medicine, has high medicinal value, economic value is also very high.It is mainly distributed in Inner Mongolia, Gansu and Xinjiang.

2. How to reproduce and grow

Choose the right time first.Generally, spring or autumn is more suitable for sowing, the climate is suitable, which is conducive to the growth of plants and can improve the survival rate to a certain extent.

Next, prepare the seedbed.On the east side of the wild Suo Suo Lin, about 50 to 80 centimeters away, dig out a seedbed about one to two meters long and 50 to 80 centimeters deep.

You can then seed.Sow the selected seeds directly on the seedbed, apply enough bottom fertilizer on it, such as fermented organic fertilizer such as animal manure, and then cover a layer of soil about thirty or forty centimeters thick.

After sowing, pay attention to spraying water to keep the seedbed moist, which can induce roots to extend into the seedbed.

3. Cistanche deserticola

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