Market price of Bletilla striata

Bletilla striata has a wide range of medicinal value and garden value, mainly used to stop bleeding, reduce swelling and muscle, flowers are purple, white, blue, yellow and pink, can be potted indoor ornamental, can also be embellished in a more shady flower bed, flower border or a corner of the courtyard. Let's take a look at the price of Bletilla striata.

Market price of Bletilla striata

Bletilla striata is divided into regular Bletilla striata and Bletilla striata, regular Bletilla striata is sticky, generally 2-3 legs. Water Bletilla has little viscosity and no bifurcation, and there is a great price gap between the two. The market price of Bletilla striata is about 250 yuan per jin and that of Bletilla striata is about 40 yuan per jin.

Character identification of Bletilla striata

The rhizome is slightly irregularly oblate or rhomboid, with 2-3 bifurcations like palms, 1.5-5cm long and 0.5-1.5cm thick. The surface is grayish-white or yellowish-white, with fine wrinkles, protruding stem marks above, and traces of connecting another stem below; with stem scars as the center, several brown concentric rings remain brown dotted whisker root marks on the ring. The quality is hard and not easy to break. The cross section is white, translucent and horny, with scattered punctate vascular bundles. The coarse powder expands as soon as it meets water, and the water extract is colloid. Odorless, bitter and sticky to chew. It is better to have a large, full, white, translucent and solid one.

Extended Reading of Bletilla striata

The scientific name of Bletilla striata is Cymbidium bicolor, epiphytic or terrestrial herbs. The pseudobulb is usually ovate, slightly oblique, with a conspicuous long neck at the upper end. The leaves have grown at flowering stage, lanceolate, oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic, papery, scape growing between the two leaves, together with leaves originating from the base of the leafless old pseudobulb, erect, the base and the petiole that has not yet fully grown are enclosed in a membranous cylindrical sheath, with 1 flower at the tip, and rarely 23 flowers. Rose-red or less white with purplish blue flowers, often yellow and dark purple spots on lip, capsule fusiform-oblong, flowering May May-July, fruiting in October, southeastern Xizang in northwestern Yunnan, on gravelly grasslands under coniferous forests, on mossy rocks, on ravine walls or on subalpine scrub grasslands, 2800-4200 m above sea level, also distributed in India and Myanmar.