It is the real king of wild vegetables. It can be called a wonderland, but it is often mistaken for bracken.

There is a unique wild vegetable in Yunnan, China, which grows in the mountains above 2500 meters above sea level on the border between China and Vietnam. It is shrouded in clouds all the year round, the vegetation is dense, the summer is not hot, the winter is not cold, and the temperature is stable. In addition, the mountains are full of towering trees, the ground is covered with thick moss, inaccessible, far from the city and pollution, it can be called a fairyland. You can imagine how delicious wild vegetables grow in this "fairyland", but it is a pity that too few people know about it.

This kind of wild vegetable is called "Yunlong vegetable". Its name is like the name of a person on TV, but it has a kind of otherworldly feeling on the wild vegetable, probably because it grows in Wonderland, so it deserves the name. In the eyes of the local people, Yunlongcai grows in alpine clouds, absorbs the aura of heaven and earth, gathers the essence of the sun and the moon, and is the real "king of wild vegetables." Every year in the Yunlong vegetable production season, people will go up the mountain to pick, mainly in spring, is a delicacy in spring.

Although the folk saying in Yunnan has a hint of boasting, Yunlong cuisine has a high nutritional value. It contains 18 kinds of amino acids, protein pteridins, fern glycosides, germanium, selenium, strontium, molybdenum and other trace elements rarely found in other vegetables. It is a kind of natural green food. Modern medicine believes that the vegetable in Yunlongcai has a certain ability to inhibit bacteria and has the effect of detoxification and sterilization, while the cellulose in Yunlongcai can also increase intestinal peristalsis, clear intestines and detoxification, defecate and defecate, and enhance the body's resistance to disease.

However, Yunlongcai is often mistaken for bracken because they are so similar in appearance that it is difficult for laymen to distinguish. The biggest difference between Yunlongcai and bracken is that their producing areas are different. Yunlongcai is unique to the high mountains of Yunnan. Only Yunnan is called Yunlongcai, while bracken is distributed all over the country. Then there is a slight difference in shape between the two. Yunlongcai has a slender stem, no curl at the top, most of the color is green, bracken is generally purple or green with purple, the top is rolled into a circle, and the stem is stout.

Yunlong cuisine has a long history, and it is recorded in Zhaonan of the Book of songs: "if you choose Yunlong cuisine from the south mountain, you will pick it." It can be seen that it is a well-known wild vegetable in ancient times, and the ancient method of eating has been handed down to this day, most of which are cooked in water and dried as dried vegetables. Now almost all are used for cold salad, but meat can be vegetarian, delicious, more delicious than bracken. Many people have eaten bracken, but many people have not eaten Yunlong vegetable.