Parting and sadness-- changing brocade flowers

Change the brocade flower: herbal, earthly. Bulb ovate, leafy in early spring, leaves banded. Flowering stem ca. 60 cm tall; involucral bracts 2. Umbels with 4-6 flowers, purplish red. Stamens nearly as long as perianth. Capsule trigonous, loculicidal. Seeds subglobose, black. Produced in China's Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hubei and other places, mostly born in shady slopes or bamboo forests.

Change the brocade flower

Morphological features:

Change brocade flower is a kind of herb, bulb and garlic are somewhat similar, show egg shape; leaf and daffodil are similar, show banded; stem height is about 60 cm, umbel, have 4-6 flowers, flower color is light red, flower lobes are cut short for blue, color dense, very similar to a watercolor painting; the wreath is about 1 cm long, stamens and perianth are nearly the same, and the style is slightly longer than the perianth, very small and lovely.

Change brocade flowers like sunny wet environment, such as cold hillsides, rocks, in the semi-shady and dry environment can also survive, slightly cold-resistant, tenacious vitality. It is not picky about the soil, but it grows more luxuriantly in fertile and breathable soil, and the flowers are more and more beautiful. It will enter dormancy under the extremely hot and cold conditions in summer and winter, and the flowering and fruiting period is from August to September.

Change the brocade flower

Medicinal use:

Change the bulb of brocade flower as the raw material for extracting galantamine. It has the effects of detoxifying and dispersing knots, treating sore throat, skin sores, furuncle, carbuncle and sores. Bulbs are usually picked in the wild or cultivated for 2-3 years in spring and autumn, washed and dried, or sliced to dry. When in use, for external use, smash the affected area.

Change the brocade flower

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Change the brocade flower in the garden, can do under the forest ground cover flowers, flower border cluster planting or natural planting between mountains and rocks. Because of its flowering time leaves, it should be better with other more tolerant herbs. The planting density is 15-20 cm between plants and 40 cm between rows, and one row of other evergreen plants are planted between rows. In addition, it has the characteristics of strong scape and long stem, so it is an ideal cut flower material.