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The difference between yanshanjiang and Amomum villosum

Hank Schrader
2020-07-17 09:21:19
Leaf blade: the former is lanceolate, with petiole about 1-1.5cm long. The leaves in the middle of the latter are lanceolate, the upper ones are linear, nearly without petiole. Flowers: former panicle, white top pink below. The latter has spikes of white petals with a yellow tip in the middle. Fruit: the former is oval, the latter is oval.

I. blade difference

The leaves of Zingiber officinale are lanceolate, about 30-60 cm in length and 5-10 cm in width. The tip is acuminate and has a small spiraling tip, gradually narrowed to the base, with pubescence on the edge, glabrous on both sides, and a petiole about 1-1.5 cm in length.

The middle part of Amomum villosum is long lanceolate, about 37 cm long, about 7 cm wide, the upper part is linear, about 25 cm long, 3 cm wide, sessile or nearly sessile, and there are concave reticulated patterns on the leaf sheath.

The difference between flowers

Yanshanjiang is a panicle, drooping, white under the petals, pink at the top, purplish red in the inflorescence axis, short branches, small flowers on each branch, small bracts are oval.

Amomum villosum is spike, petals are white, there is a small yellow tip in the middle, anti roll. Scales elliptic, green or brown, bracts lanceolate, small bracts tubular

3. Fruit difference

The capsule of Zingiber officinale is ovoid, with sparse coarse hairs on the surface, more exposed stripes, and red when mature.

Zingiber Zingiber

The capsule of Amomum villosum is oval, purple red when mature, brown when dry, with thorns on its surface.

Fructus Amomi

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