A complete collection of dandelions

Dandelion belongs to the perennial herb of Compositae, with flower heads and seeds with white crown hair forming fluffy balls. After blooming, dandelion floats to a new place to breed new life. The plant contains dandelion alcohol, dandelion, choline, organic acid, inulin and other healthy nutrients, which have the effects of diuresis, diarrhea, jaundice, gallbladder and so on. Let's take a look at the materials and pictures of dandelion.

Basic information of dandelion

[scientific name] dandelion

[alias] Hua Hua Lang, dandelion, edible dandelion, bedwetting grass, dandelion, mother-in-law.

China, Korea, Mongolia, Russia.

Family and genus: plant kingdom, angiosperm phylum, dicotyledonous class, synpetal subclass, Platycodon grandiflorum, Compositae, glossy subfamily, chicory family, dandelion perennial herbs.

Morphological characteristics of dandelion

[root] slightly conical, curved, 4cm long, brown on the surface, wrinkled, with brown or yellowish-white hairs on the root head.

[leaves] Obovate-lanceolate, oblanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 4-20 cm long and 1-5 cm wide, apex obtuse or acute, entire or dentate, each lobe 3-5-lobed, base attenuate into petiole, petiole and main veins often reddish purple, sparsely arachnoid white pilose or glabrous.

[flowers] scape 1 to several, as long as or slightly longer than leaves, 10 × 25 cm tall, distally purplish red, densely arachnoid white villous, head ca. 30-40 mm in diameter, involucral bracts campanulate, 12-14 mm long, light green, anthers and stigmas dark green, anthesis April-September.

[fruit] achenes Obovate-lanceolate, dark brown, ca. 4 × 5 mm long and ca. 1 × 1.5 mm wide, upper with small spines, lower with rows of tubercles, apex gradually contracted into a cone about 1 mm long to cylindrical beak base, beak 6 × 10 mm long, slender, crown hair white, ca. 6 mm long, period 5-10 months.

The main value of dandelion

[nutritional value] raw dandelion is rich in vitamin A, vitamin C and potassium, as well as iron, calcium, vitamin B2, vitamin B1, magnesium, vitamin B6, folic acid and copper. Every 60 grams of raw dandelion leaves contain 86% moisture, 1.6 grams of protein, 5.3 grams of carbohydrates, about 108.8 kilojoules of calories, and a variety of healthy nutrients such as dandelion, dandelion, choline, organic acids, inulin and so on. Can eat raw, fried food, make soup, is both medicine and food plants.

[medicinal value] dandelion taste sweet, slightly bitter, cold, return to the liver and stomach meridian, diuretic, relieving diarrhea, relieving jaundice, cholagogic effect, treatment of heat toxin, carbuncle, sore, internal carbuncle, eye swelling pain, damp-heat, jaundice, urine leaching pain, ecchymosis, breast carbuncle, pain, toothache, eye red, swallow, lung carbuncle, intestinal carbuncle, damp-heat jaundice, heat astringent pain. Treatment of acute mastitis, lymphoiditis, phlegm, furuncle, acute conjunctivitis, cold and fever, acute tonsillitis, acute bronchitis, gastritis, hepatitis, cholecystitis, urinary tract infection and so on.

[cosmetic value] dandelion is not only rich in nutrition and high medicinal value, but also widely used in cosmetology.

[ornamental value] Dandelion has the function of greening and beautifying the environment, and satisfactory ornamental effect can be obtained whether it is planted on the ground or bonsai cultivation.

[veterinary drug value] dandelion is not only a good vegetable and medicine for human beings, but also can be widely used in animal husbandry and veterinaries. it can not only be used as a precious feed additive, but also treat a variety of diseases of livestock.