What does spice grass and fruit look like? When will you plant and harvest? What are the key points of planting techniques?

Grass fruit, also known as grass nut, grass fruit, is one of the bulk varieties of traditional Chinese medicine for both medicine and food. Distributed in Yunnan, Guangxi, Guizhou and other provinces and regions of China. So what does the grass and fruit look like? When will you plant and harvest? What are the key points of planting techniques?

What does the grass and fruit look like?

1. Perennial herbs with tufted stems, up to 3 meters high, the whole plant has a spicy aroma, and the underground part is slightly like ginger. Leaf blade oblong or oblong, 40-70 cm long, 10-20 cm wide, apex acuminate, base attenuate, margin scarious, both surfaces smooth glabrous, sessile or shortly stipitate, ligule entire, tip obtusely rounded, 0.8-1.2 cm long.

Spikes unbranched, 13-18 cm long and 5 cm wide, with about 5-30 flowers per inflorescence; total pedicel 10 cm or more long, covered with dense scales, scales oblong or long elliptic, 5.5-7 cm long, 2.3-3.5 cm wide, apex rounded, leathery, brown after drying; bracts lanceolate, ca. 4 cm long, 0.6 cm wide, tip acuminate Bracteoles tubular, 3 cm long and 0.7 cm wide, one side split to middle, tip 2-3-toothed, calyx tube ca. as long as bracteoles, tip obtusely tridentate; Corolla red, tube 2.5 cm long, lobes oblong, ca. 2 cm long and 0.4 cm wide; labellum oval, ca. 2.7 cm long, 1.4 cm wide, tip fissured Anthers 1.3 cm long, connective appendages 3-lobed, 4 mm long, 11 mm wide, middle lobes square, bilateral lobes slightly narrower.

2. The capsule is dense, red when ripe, brown after drying, indehiscent, oblong or oblong, 2.5-4.5 cm long and 2 cm wide, glabrous, with persistent style remnants at the top, wrinkled longitudinal lines after drying, fruiting pedicel 2-5 mm long, base often with persistent bracts, seeds polygonal, 4-6 mm in diameter, with strong fragrance. Flowering: April-June; fruiting: September-December.

When will the grass and fruit be planted and harvested?

Grass and fruit blossom and bear fruit for 2 years, and the yield is higher after 6-7 years. The florescence is from April to June, and the fruiting period is from August to September in Guangdong and from November to December in Yunnan. When the fruit turns reddish brown and uncracked, it is harvested, dried in the sun or dried over low heat, or scalded in boiling water for 2 to 3 minutes and stored in a dry and ventilated place.

What are the key points of grass and fruit planting techniques?

1. Site selection: grass and fruit should be planted in woodland with dense trees and shrubs covered with decaying leaves and loose, fertile and moist soil.

2. Land preparation: after selecting the plot, weeds should be cleared in spring, and too many bad shading trees should be removed at the same time. Trees should be replanted to shade the mountain where the shade is not enough, and the soil should be completely reclaimed and loosened from August to September to improve the woodland environment and improve the land fertility. to ensure seedling survival and good growth. In October, the size of the pond is length × width × depth = 30cm × 30cm × 30cm, which can be planted after drilling the pond.

3. Timely transplanting: the most suitable transplanting is from early June to early August.

4. Reasonable close planting: generally, the row spacing of transplanted plants is 2 meters × 1.5 meters, 150 to 200 ponds per mu. The forest with fertile soil and good management conditions should be sparsely planted, and the land with thin soil and poor management conditions should be planted densely, and square row spacing should be used gently. The steep slopes are planted with equal row spacing triangles.

5. Transplanting method: the transplanted seedlings should grow healthily, with a height of 35-40 cm, a stem base of more than 1 cm, 8-12 roots, no diseases and insect pests and no mechanical damage. When transplanting, fill the pit with 20-22 cm fine soil, then plant the seedlings in the pit to make the roots stretch naturally, then fill 8-10 cm fine soil to cover the seedling roots tightly, and press them tightly with your feet, so that the seedling roots are closely combined with the soil.