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What are the values and uses of the glossy privet tree? Read this article to understand
Landscaping uses: The glossy privet (Ligustrum lucidum) sways in all four seasons, with well-spaced branches, dense foliage and a neat tree shape. It is a commonly used ornamental tree species in gardens, and can be planted alone or in clusters in courtyards, or used as a street tree. Because of its strong adaptability, fast growth and tolerance to pruning, it is also used as a hedge. It generally takes 3 to 4 years to take shape and achieve a screening effect. It is easy to propagate and raise seedlings from seed, and can also serve as a rootstock for grafting and propagating osmanthus, lilac, and the colored-leaf plant golden-leaf privet. Medical uses of glossy privet leaves: The leaves are opposite, leathery, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 5-14 cm long,
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Pyracantha bonsai is fiery red like fire, with high ornamental value
Pyracantha is also known as "torch fruit", "flame tree" and "soldier-saving grain". Growing wild throughout the Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan regions, it can be found all over the mountains, and people have long dug it up for potting and made it into bonsai for ornamental display. Its presence is also seen at the border area of northern Guangdong with Hunan and Jiangxi. After three to five years of large-scale seedling cultivation, there is a medium-to-upper-grade raw material with a circumference of twenty to thirty cm, and the resource is abundant, which is truly a good thing for closing mountains for afforestation and protecting the environment. Seedling stock can be made into all kinds of bonsai more freely and with ease. Although it is not as "wild in flavor" as wild stock, its elegance has a different
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Lycoris radiata has high ornamental value, and its cultivation methods require attention
[Aliases] Cockroach flower, crow garlic. [Family and genus] Amaryllidaceae, Lycoris. [Morphology] Perennial herbaceous plant, with thick underground bulbs, broadly oval, covered with a purplish-red membrane. Leaves linear, emerging from the base after the flowering period, 5-6 leaves, leaves emerge in winter and wither in summer. Flower scape emerges from August to September, 30-60 cm tall, bearing 4-12 flowers in a terminal umbel; flowers bright red, the tube very short, about 5-6 mm long, lobes narrowly obovate-lanceolate, curling outward. Ova
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How to develop and utilize reishi mushroom? A comprehensive interpretation of its value and approaches
Reishi mushroom, also known as lingzhi cao, mujilingzhi, hongzhi, chizhi, wannianxun and lingzhi xiancao, etc. Reishi is a fungus used both as food and medicine. Folk legend says: eat lingzhi cao and you can live forever, which fully demonstrates that reishi indeed has high medicinal value. In the "Shennong Bencao Jing" (Divine Farmer's Materia Medica), reishi is listed as a top-grade herb. Traditional Chinese medicine holds that reishi has tonic, brain-strengthening, body-invigorating, anti-inflammatory, diuretic and stomach-benefiting effects; it can also treat neurasthenia, palpitations and dizziness, insomnia and forgetfulness, chronic hepatitis, pyelonephritis, bronchial asthma, bronchitis, stomach diseases, coronary
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Four Methods to Increase the Health-Tonic Value of Silkie Chickens
The Silkie chicken, also known as the silky fowl or black-boned chicken, has black meat, skin and bones. Its body is rich in trace elements, vitamins, unsaturated fatty acids, melanin, iodine and selenium and other trace elements and macro elements needed by the human body, and it has good dietary therapy and health-tonic functions. However, in raising silkie chickens, people mostly focus their efforts on fattening, and very few consider how to improve their medicinal and health-tonic value. Researchers have carried out extensive and in-depth studies on feed, and through laboratory testing have proven that black crops such as black
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Phyllostachys vivax McClure cv. aureocaulis is an ornamental bamboo variety with outstanding ornamental value.
Phyllostachys vivax McClure cv. aureocaulis. I. Morphological characteristics: The culms are 5-8 m tall and up to 5-6 cm in diameter; the culms are golden yellow and very brilliant in color. The culm sheaths are densely covered with dense smoky cloud-like spots; there are no culm ears and no sheath-mouth hairs; the culm ligule is short and strongly arched in the middle, with the two sides markedly decurrent; the culm leaves are slender, with the front half strongly wrinkled. The bamboo leaves are relatively large and long and droop in clusters, making a striking appearance. The shoot period is late April. II. Distribution and habits: northern Zhejiang
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What are the values and uses of golden privet?
Widely used in landscaping. Throughout the entire growing season, the leaves of golden privet are golden yellow, beautiful and distinctive. Therefore, in landscape design it can be combined with plants such as golden boxwood, Japanese barberry, purple-leaf sand cherry, prostrate Chinese juniper, wintercreeper, and Sichuan juniper seedlings, planted in groups and in broad masses. In "street green displays" or around sculptures, planting broad masses of golden privet, with its striking color, plays a role of adding beauty to beauty, both enriching the colors of the landscape and enlivening the garden atmosphere.
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Detailed Explanation of the Value and Cultivation Techniques of Goji Berry
Goji berry is a deciduous shrub of the genus Lycium in the Solanaceae family. It is an excellent tree species for soil and water conservation, and also an important traditional Chinese medicinal herb. Every part of it is valuable - the leaves, fruits, and bark can all be used as medicine. The fruit is called goji berry (Lycium barbarum fruit); the root bark is called Digupi (Lycium root bark); its tender stems and leaves can be used as vegetables. "Compendium of Materia Medica" states that goji berry is "named so because its thorns are like those of the citron and its stems are like the branches of the willow." It is distributed throughout our country, mostly in the wild. Our country has 2 cultivated species: one is Ningxia goji (Lycium barbarum), which is grown for its fruit for food or medicinal use, mainly distributed in Gansu, Ningxia, the Hexi Corridor, as well as North China, Tianjin, Shandong, Henan and other places; the other species is goji (Lycium chinense), which is grown for its tender stems and leaves as a vegetable, also known as goji vegetable, goji head, goji tip, niujili, etc., mainly distributed in Guangxi and Guangdong.
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What are the values and uses of the yew? A comprehensive guide
Diuresis and reduction of swelling, treating kidney disease, diabetes, nephritic edema, difficult urination, gonorrhea, and so on. Warming the kidney and promoting menstruation, treating irregular menstruation, postpartum blood stasis, dysmenorrhea, and other effective benefits. Landscaping value: suitable for planting in front of and behind houses, on barren slopes and vacant land, and along roadsides; plant once and benefit for many years, with remarkable returns. The yew has a beautiful tree form, and the color combination of red and green contrasting during the fruit ripening period is intoxicating; it can be widely used for soil and water conservation and for forestry and horticultural ornamental forests, and is an excellent tree species for improving the ecological environment and building beautiful mountains and rivers in the new century.
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A Detailed Guide to Collecting Snake Slough and Its Medicinal Value
1. How is snake slough collected? Snake slough is the dried shed skin of various snakes, that is, the keratinized outer layer of the body surface naturally shed during their activity, and it contains components such as collagen. Among the general public it is often called "long insect skin", "snake shell", "green dragon garment" and so on. Apart from the hibernation period, it can be collected at any time of the year; after shaking out the mud and sand, dry it in the sun for later use. It is light in weight, brittle and easily broken, with a slightly fishy taste. For medicinal use, the best grade is long strips that are free of impurities and glossy, while broken pieces are inferior. For snake slough intended for medicine, after collection shake out the mud and sand and store it in a dry place, taking care to prevent moisture.
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