What is the market price of Bletilla striata per jin? With market analysis
Bletilla striata has wide medicinal value and garden value. It is mainly used to stop bleeding by astringing and to reduce swelling and promote tissue regeneration. Its flowers come in colors such as purplish red, white, blue, yellow and pink. It can be grown in pots for indoor viewing, and can also be used to accent more shaded flower platforms, flower borders or a corner of the courtyard. Now let us take a look at the price market of Bletilla striata!
The market price of Bletilla striata
Bletilla striata is divided into standard Bletilla striata and water Bletilla striata. Standard Bletilla striata is highly sticky and generally has 2-3 legs. Water Bletilla striata has low stickiness and no branching, and the price difference between the two is very large. The market price of Bletilla striata is about 250 yuan per jin, while water Bletilla striata is about 40 yuan per jin.
Character identification of Bletilla striata
The rhizome is slightly irregularly flat-round or rhomboid, with 2-3 branches resembling a palm, 1.5-5 cm long and 0.5-1.5 cm thick. The surface is grayish white or yellowish white, with fine wrinkles; the upper side has raised stem scars, and the lower side also has traces of connection to another tuber. With the stem scar as the center, there are several brown concentric ring patterns, and brown dot-like fibrous root scars remain on the rings. The texture is hard and not easy to break. The cross section is off-white, semi-transparent, horny, and scattered dot-like vascular bundles can be seen. The coarse powder swells immediately upon contact with water and has a distinct slippery feel; the water infusion is gelatinous. It is odorless, bitter in taste, and sticky when chewed. Those that are large, plump, white, semi-transparent and solid in texture are considered better.
Further reading on water Bletilla striata
The scientific name of water Bletilla striata is Pleione foliosa, an epiphytic or terrestrial herb. The pseudobulb is usually ovate, slightly oblique, with an obvious long neck at the upper end. The leaves have already grown by the flowering period, lanceolate, oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic, papery. The scape is born between the two leaves and, together with the leaves, arises from the base of the leafless old pseudobulb. It is upright, and its base, together with the not yet fully grown petiole, is enclosed in a membranous tubular sheath. The apex bears 1 flower, rarely 2-3 flowers. The flowers are rose-red, or less often white with a pale purple-blue tinge; the lip often has yellow and dark purple spots. The capsule is spindle-shaped and oblong. The flowering period is May-July, and the fruiting period is October. It is produced in northwestern Yunnan and southeastern Xizang, growing under coniferous forests on gravelly grassland, on moss-covered rocks, on rock walls beside streams, or in subalpine shrub grassland, at an altitude of 2800-4200 m. It is also distributed in India and Myanmar.