The scientific name is endive.

Endive is Asteraceae, endive perennial herb. Roots vertically straight, stems erect, up to 150 cm tall, finely striped, basal leaves mostly, leaf blade oblique semi-elliptic, elliptic, ovate, oblique ovate, oblique triangular, semiorbicular or auricular, terminal lobe slightly larger, long ovate, elliptic, or long ovate-elliptic; head in the top of the stem branches in corymbose inflorescences.

Involucre campanulate, outer bracts lanceolate, ligulate florets numerous, yellow. Achenes slightly compressed, long ellipsoid, crown hairs white, flowering and fruiting from January to September.

Endive propagation method

Endive mainly by underground stolon propagation, but also by seed sowing propagation. early April when the wild endive shoots break the ground, planing its underground rhizome, with a high-pressure water gun to rinse off the soil, in accordance with the length of the internode on the stolon with a guillotine cutter cut into short sections of 5-10 cm.

Endive's underground stolons are fleshy stems, easy to lose water and wilt, short cuts should be planted in a timely manner to prevent excessive water loss to reduce the survival rate. Planting, in the division of a good plot of land along the north-south direction to open 10 cm deep, row spacing 15 cm shallow ditch, the short section of endive underground rhizome according to the plant spacing 5 cm flat on the bottom of the ditch, and then mulch the ditch to fill in, watering the root water.

Watering 5 days later, when the ground is not sticky shoes when laying a layer of wheat grass, to keep the surface moist, in order to prevent the surface of the plate knot affect the seedlings out of the ground. The surface covered with wheat grass should be sampled in time to check, such as 60% of seedlings have broken the soil growth, to remove the grass curtain in time, so that the seedlings see the light growth.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - endive