Modest and simple, selfless dedication-- Zhuge vegetable

Any of several annual or biennial herbs of the genus Cruciferae. It is called February Blue because the blue-purple flowers begin to bloom around the second month of the lunar calendar. Grow in plains, mountains, roadsides, the edge of the ground. Low requirements for soil light and other conditions, cold and drought resistance, tenacious vitality.

Zhuge vegetable

Growth characteristics:

Strong cold resistance. But also more shade-resistant, used as a ground cover, good covering effect, green and lush, a green. It is highly adaptable. It can grow from Northeast and North China to East and Central China. In case of heavy frost and snow in winter, although some leaves will be frozen, they can still sprout, blossom and bear fruit in early spring. It is not strict with the soil.

Purple flowers bloom one after another from the bottom to the top, blooming continuously from February to May and June, especially when planted in groups, like a blue-purple sea. Such as planting in the riverside, seawall, green leaves-sea of flowers-sea water-blue sky intertwined together, very spectacular.

Pueraria lobata has a strong ability of self-propagation, and it can form its own community every year after sowing. After the seeds mature from May to June every year, they fall into the soil, grow green seedlings in September, overwinter, blossom in late spring, seed in summer, and continue year after year. Because the provenance is abundant, the price is cheap, sowing costs only a few cents per square meter, so it is adopted by many greening projects, parks and tourist attractions.

Zhuge vegetable

Ornamental value:

February blue plant life history from September to June of the following year, even in the cold winter can still keep green, can better cover the ground. Beijing area generally blossoms from late March to May, part of the flowering period can be extended to summer, the flower area of a population can last for more than two months, and the best ornamental effect can be as long as a month. February blue is a rare flower in early spring and green ground cover plant in winter, so it is very popular and has been nominated as a candidate flower in Shanghai, but there are few examples of landscape application, and it is still mainly wild.

Garden use:

Can be lawn and ground cover, because Zhuge green leaves in winter, spring flowers soft and pleasing to the eye, early spring flowers into pieces, long flowering period, suitable for large area ground cover, or used as background plants without fine management of green space, good garden shade or forest ground cover plants, can also be used as flower diameter cultivation. It can also be planted on sloping land, on both sides of the road, etc.

Zhuge vegetable

Nutritional value:

As a common wild vegetable in early spring, Pueraria lobata has large growth of tender stems and leaves and rich nutrition. According to the determination, every 100 grams of fresh products contain carotene 3.32 mg, vitamin B 20.16 mg, vitamin C 59 mg. The oil content of seeds is more than 50%, especially the high proportion of linoleic acid, so it is a good oil plant.

Culture:

Zhuge is one of the most common wild flowers in early spring in northern China, so simple Zhuge often appears in literary works as a grass-roots class. The most famous literary works with Zhuge Cai as the protagonist are Ji Xianlin's prose "February Orchid".

There is a text, "words of Flowers", which is a fairy tale of Zong Pu. With flowers as the medium, this article praises February Blue's spirit of modesty and selflessness.