This plant looks like Chinese cabbage, but it can blossom at minus 50 degrees and is worth tens of thousands of dollars.

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In the cold zone of northern China, snow covers all the year round, and the temperature can be dozens of degrees below zero. It is difficult for ordinary plants to survive, but there is an extremely rare plant that grows specially in this extreme temperature. This plant looks like a Chinese cabbage, leaves are green, flowers are light green or white. This plant is particularly frost-resistant, can bloom at temperatures of minus 50 degrees Celsius, flowers are very beautiful, but also expensive Chinese herbal medicine, the best quality can sell tens of thousands of yuan a plant.

This plant, which looks like Chinese cabbage from a distance, is called snow lotus. It is mainly distributed in Tianshan Mountains and Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of China. Among them, snow lotus produced in Tianshan Mountains has the best quality. Due to the poor conditions in which snow lotus grows, snow lotus takes about 5 years from flowering to fruiting, which is doomed to its yield not being too high. In nine years, snow lotus flowers can still be dug in areas below 2000 meters above sea level. Later, due to people's crazy digging, snow lotus flowers are rarely seen in areas above 3000 meters above sea level.

When people dig snow lotus flowers, in order to pursue their own interests, even the buds that have not fully bloomed are dug up, resulting in the quality of snow lotus flowers declining year by year. Once the diameter of the flower head of snow lotus can reach more than 30 centimeters, now only 10 centimeters. Nowadays, good quality snow lotus flowers are rare. Wild snow lotus flowers with flower heads exceeding 30 cm are rare and expensive. One plant can be sold for tens of thousands. Unfortunately, it is difficult to buy them with money. Because the wild snow lotus of Tianshan Mountain has long been listed as a second-class protected plant, it is forbidden to dig, and now most of the snow lotus flowers on the market are from other areas.

The reason why snow lotus is loved by people is mainly because of its unique medicinal value. It grew in an extremely cold place, but it was a tonic. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it can cure all cold diseases. In Compendium of Materia Medica, it is believed that snow lotus flower is "hot in nature and can supplement essence and Yiyang". It grows in a cold place, but it is a hot thing. It is obvious that it is different. In addition, snow lotus also has the effect of warming meridians and dispelling cold, expelling wind and removing dampness, dispelling cold and resolving phlegm. Folk people often use it as tonic wine and soup.

Readers, have you ever seen snow lotus flowers? Here remind everyone not to illegally dig snow lotus, please protect the snow lotus that is not easy to grow, let them bloom in the beautiful snow mountain.

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