Is the grass purple perilla? What does it look like? Where does it grow?

When it comes to Tu Su, people will think of the poem "Spring breeze warms Tu Su" and Li Yifeng's role of "Tu Su in a hundred miles", but we seldom hear of Tu Su Cao. So is Tu Sucao a perilla? What does it look like? Where did you grow up? According to Xiao Gong, who has been selling vegetables at the Hongxing Agricultural and sideline Market in Changsha, Hunan for many years, in fact, Tu Su Cao is what we now call Perilla, but the term Tu Su Cao is seldom used.

What does Tu Su Cao look like?

Perilla is an annual erect herb. Stem 0.3-2 m tall, green or purple, obtusely quadrangular, 4-grooved, densely villous.

Perilla has a specific fragrance, the leaves are wrinkled and curled, and the intact ones are oval when flattened, 4 to 11 cm long and 2.5 to 9 cm wide, the apex is long or acute, the base is rounded or broadly cuneate, the margin is circular-serrated, both sides are purple or green above, there are many concave glandular scales on the lower surface, petiole 2 to 5 cm long, purple or purple-green, crisp.

The twigs are purple-green, with marrow in the middle of the section, fragrant air and slightly pungent taste.

Second, the growth habits of Tusu

Perilla is propagated by seeds, divided into direct seeding and seedling transplanting.

Perilla has strong adaptability, lax soil requirements, good drainage, sandy soil, loam, clay loam, front and back house, ditch edge, fertile soil cultivation, good growth. Vegetables are the best crop in the previous crop. Fruit trees can be planted under young forests.