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What varieties and types of Polygonatum are there? Let us introduce you to the common ones
According to their different characteristics, commercial Polygonatum is divided into three categories: "chicken-head Polygonatum," "ginger-shaped Polygonatum," and "large Polygonatum." Chicken-head Polygonatum is irregularly conical, with a large head and a thin tail, resembling a chicken's head. It is 3-10 cm long and 0.5-1.5 cm in diameter. The surface is yellowish-white to yellowish-brown, semi-transparent, with fine wrinkles over the whole body and slightly raised, wavy rings. The scar of the aboveground stem is disc-shaped, often with a concave center, and the root scars are mostly dot-like protrusions. The cut surface is light brown, slightly horny, and has numerous yellowish-white dot-like veins (vascular bundles). The odor is slight, the taste is sweet, and it is sticky,
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What varieties and types of Asarum are there? A detailed guide in one article
Commercial Asarum is mostly divided into two types: Liaoxixin (northeastern Asarum) and Huaxixin (Chinese Asarum). Liaoxixin refers to Asarum heterotropoides var. mandshuricum and Asarum sieboldii var. seoulense produced in Northeast China. The two are similar in characteristics, but there are distinctions between wild and cultivated products. Wild Liaoxixin is usually gathered in small bundles of a dozen or so plants, often rolled into clumps. The rhizome is irregularly cylindrical, 1-10 cm long, with short branches, grayish-brown on the surface, rough with ring-shaped nodes, and the internode spacing is about 2-3 mm. The branch tips have bowl-shaped stem scars. The roots are slender, densely growing on the nodes, about 1 mm in diameter and 10-20 cm long, grayish-yellow on the surface, smooth or with fine longitudinal
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What varieties and types of Angelica sinensis are there? This article explains in detail
The whole Angelica sinensis root is roughly cylindrical. The upper end of the root is called the "gui tou" (head), the main root is called the "gui shen" (body) or "cun shen," the branch roots are called the "gui wei" (tail) or "gui tui" (leg), and the whole is called "quan gui" (whole root). The whole root is 15-25 cm long, with a fine, dense outer skin, yellow-brown to dark brown, with longitudinal wrinkles and transversely elongated lenticels; the upper end of the root is swollen, 1.5-4 cm in diameter, bluntly rounded, with residual leaf sheaths and stem bases; the main root is thick and short, l-3 cm long, l.5-3 cm in diameter, with 3-5 or more branch roots below, thick at the top and thin at the bottom, mostly twisted, with a few fibrous root scars. The texture is flexible and tough, and the cut surface is yellow-white
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What varieties and types of Panax notoginseng are there? A detailed introduction to common varieties
Panax notoginseng: slightly spindle-shaped or subconical, 1-6 cm long, l-4 cm in diameter. The surface is grayish yellow (commonly known as "iron skin") or grayish brown (commonly known as "copper skin"), with intermittent longitudinal wrinkles and a few lenticels, a stem scar at the apex, and nodular protrusions around it (commonly known as "lion's head"). There are broken rootlet scars on the sides. The texture is firm, and after being crushed, the bark and wood often separate. The cross-section is grayish green, yellow-green, or grayish white (commonly known as "iron bone"), and the bark has small brown resin canal spots. The odor is slight, and the taste is bitter followed by slightly sweet. Spring
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What are the varieties and types of licorice?
1. Licorice (Glycyrrhiza): The root is cylindrical, 30-120 cm long, 0.6-3 cm in diameter. The outer bark varies in tightness, red-brown, dark brown or grayish-brown, with obvious wrinkles and furrows, commonly known as "drawn furrows and sunken ridges," with sparse fine rootlet scars. The lenticels are transversely elongated, and the cut surfaces at both ends are slightly sunken in the center. The center of the cut section shrinks to about the size of a pepper eye, called "pepper eye." The texture is solid and heavy, the fractured surface is fibrous, yellow-white, starchy, with obvious cambium ring markings and radial striations, and fissures. The rhizome surface has bud scars
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What varieties and types of Pinellia ternata are there? Detailed introduction
Pinellia ternata commercial products are subglobose, some slightly flattened and oblique, 1-1.5 cm in diameter. The surface is white or pale yellow, the top has a sunken stem scar, surrounded by densely distributed pitted root scars commonly called "brown eyes," and the lower part is bluntly rounded and relatively smooth. The texture is solid, the cross-section is pure white and kidney-shaped, rich in farinaceous character, odorless, pungent in taste, numbing to the tongue and irritating to the throat, and sticky when chewed. In the past, commercial Pinellia ternata was divided into many commodity types according to production area; Xufuzi: the adjacent areas of Sichuan and Yunnan, especially that produced in Zhaotong, Yunnan, is the most famous and has the reputation of "Pearl Pinellia." Nearby Leibo,
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