What kind of plant is Dishui Guanyin?

Dripping Guanyin is a large evergreen herb of the genus Amorphophallus in the Araceae, native to South America, and is a common ornamental plant in the tropics and subtropics, commonly known as taro, wolf venom, wild taro, etc., as an ornamental plant, it is called dripping Guanyin. When the air is warm and humid and the soil moisture is sufficient, it drips down from the leaf tip or the edge of the leaf, and the flowers are like Guanyin. Therefore, it is called Dishui Guanyin.

Dripping Guanyin has creeping rhizomes, erect aboveground stems, and adventitious buds. Leaves numerous, petiole green or dirty purple, spirally arranged. Petiole and middle rib becoming black, brown or white. Inflorescence stalks 2-3 tufted, Terete, usually green, sometimes dirty purple. Buddha flame bract tube green, ovate or short elliptic. Fleshy inflorescences fragrant, female inflorescences white, sterile male inflorescences green-white, fertile male inflorescences yellowish. Berries red, ovate. The florescence is in four seasons, but it often does not blossom in the shady forest.

The growth temperature of Dishui Guanyin is 20: 30 ℃, and the lowest temperature is 8 ℃. It can grow normally as long as the soil is moist, sprayed frequently and shaded in summer, and the room temperature should not be lower than 5 ℃ in winter. It is a plant under the tropical rain forest, so its growth needs high humidity and scattered light. Shade-tolerant plants like semi-shady environment and should be placed in an environment that can be shaded and ventilated.

Dishui Guanyin is produced in the tropics and subtropics of Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan, below 1700 meters above sea level, often growing at the edge of tropical rain forests or under wild banana forests in river valleys. It is also cultivated abroad from Bangladesh and northeastern India to the Malay Peninsula, Indochina Peninsula, as well as the Philippines and Indonesia.

Dripping Guanyin rhizome is used for medicine, it has good effect on abdominal pain, cholera, hernia, etc., but also can treat tuberculosis, rheumatic arthritis, tracheitis, influenza, typhoid, rheumatic heart disease, external treatment of sores, snakebite, scalding, kerosene for external use to treat neurodermatitis. Toxic, fresh grass juice scratching after skin contact, mistakenly into the eyes can cause blindness, stems and leaves after eating the mouthpiece itching, swelling, salivation, gastrointestinal pain, nausea, diarrhea, convulsions, severe suffocation, heart paralysis and death, folk vinegar with a little ginger juice co-boiled oral or cough to detoxify. The rhizome is rich in starch and can be used as an industrial substitute, but it is not edible.