Caragana (caragana)

Caragana legume, scientific name CaraganaFabr., also known as Caragana, Caragana Caragana. The English name is also called peatree. There are about 60 species of this genus. Native to Eurasia, China produces about 50 species, mostly grassland psammophytic, xerophytic deciduous shrubs, forage green manure plants. Widely distributed in the northwest, Inner Mongolia and other places. It is also distributed in the people's Republic of Mongolia and Siberia of the former Soviet Union. Leaves often clustered or alternate, even-pinnately compound or pseudo-palmately compound, leaflets 4-20, entire, stipules small, deciduous or persistent and hardened into needles. Flowers solitary, pedicels jointed; Corolla yellow, reddish purple or reddish, flag petals erect, revolute, pterygoid and keel with long claws and short ears; stamens 10, two-body; ovary subsessile, ovules numerous. Pods cylindric or lanceolate, swollen or flattened, apex pointed; seeds oblique, elliptic or globose. There are three main species cultivated in China: Caragana korshinskii CaraganakorshinskiiKom, intermediate Caragana C.intermeciaKuangetH.C.Fu and C.microphyllaLam. Caragana microphylla is scattered in the arid steppe community, with a height of 40-70cm, much branched and shrub-like. Caragana korshinskii is tall, 150-300cm high, its bark is golden, and its leaflets are lanceolate or rectangular, which are desert psammophytic and xerophytic shrubs, scattered on mobile sandy or semi-fixed sandy land in desert and semi-desert areas. Caragana intermedia has a lower plant height of 70-250cm, and its bark is yellowish gray, yellowish green or yellowish white, distributed in the sandy land of steppe and desert steppe. Caragana cultivated in production, or Caragana, is generally mixed with Caragana and Caragana. Cold-resistant, drought-resistant, not afraid of sand pressure and wind erosion. It has the function of preventing wind and fixing sand and preventing soil and water loss. It is better to sow in rainy season without soil preparation, strip sowing or on-demand sowing, with a sowing rate of 15-22kg per hectare. After Lignification, it affects its palatability and can be processed into grass powder, which can be mixed with other grass powder to feed livestock. In addition to feeding, it is used as a windbreak and sand-fixing shrub belt or biological fence on desert steppe.