Gorgonza believe that many people have heard of, in fact, very few people recognize the true face of this plant, gorgonzola's nutritional value is very high, but also has a lot of efficacy and role, let's go together to understand the gorgonzola what looks like.

The gorgonian belongs to the water lily family of large aquatic plants. Leaves and flowers floating on the water surface; and the leaves have floating and submerged, floating leaves are larger, the longest diameter up to 1.3 meters, the surface of the leaf has a thorn; reddish-purple flowers, flowers will bear berries, the berries are gorgonians also known as "chicken head rice". Gorgonzola's appearance with thorns, seed kernel can be eaten, can also be processed into starch, and some people will be used to make wine. Generally people will gorgonians and gorgonians collectively referred to as gorgonians.

Gorgonians like warm, sunny environments, not cold, not drought-resistant, the growth of suitable temperatures between 20-30 degrees, generally growing in the 30-90 centimeters deep, the water surface is relatively narrow, the mobility of the environment is small.

Gorgongonian large annual aquatic herbs. Submerged leaves are arrow-shaped or elliptic-reniform, 4-10 centimeters long, unarmed on both sides; petiole unarmed; floating leaves are leathery, elliptic-reniform to rounded, between 10-130 centimeters in diameter, peltate, some with curved notches, others without, entire, abaxially with a little bit of purple, pubescent, with sharp spines on both sides in the vein branches; petiole and pedicel are stout and up to 25 centimeters long, with stiff spines.

The gorgonian in the flowering period in July-August, flower length is generally in five centimeters or so; sepals lanceolate, 1-1.5 centimeters long, the inner surface of the purple, the outside of the densely slightly curved hard spines; petals rectangular orbicular lanceolate or lanceolate, between 1.5-2 centimeters, purplish-red, into several rounds of arrangement, inwardly tapered into the stamens; no styles, the stigma red, into the concave stigma disk. Fruiting in August-September, spherical, 3-5 cm in diameter, purplish-red, with densely hard spines on the outer skin, the seeds are also spherical, black, around 10 mm in diameter.

Gorgonians are the only species under the genus Gorgon, widely distributed in Southeast Asia. China's northern and southern provinces and districts in the lakes and ponds and swamps are wild Jiangsu and Zhejiang are cultivated. Classification is generally in terms of origin, there are southern gorgonians, northern gorgonians, the reason why there are southern gorgonians and northern gorgonians, mainly because of geographical reasons, and southern gorgonians are a variety of gorgonians and northern gorgonians belong to the same species.

South Gorgonian

South Gorgonian is also known as Su Gorgonian, produced in Jiangsu Taihu Lake area. The adult plants have no thorns on the petiole, fruiting peduncle and outside of the fruit, except for the thorns on the back of the leaves. The gorgonian rice is round and whole, not smooth, jade-white, glutinous, and of relatively good quality, but the adaptability is not as strong as the northern gorgonian.

Northern gorgonian

Produced in the Hongze Lake area, for the wild or semi-wild state. The whole plant is densely covered with rigid thorns, the fruit is small, the gorgonian rice round, not neat, white color, smooth, poor quality, but adaptable.

1, food value

Gorgonberry contains a lot of starch, riboflavin, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B1, B2, niacin and other trace elements, high nutritional value regardless of the raw and cooked can be eaten.

2, medicinal value

The roots, stems, fruits and leaves of the gorgonian can be used as medicine, with the benefit of the kidney and essence, replenish the spleen to stop diarrhea, and remove the effects of dampness. Commonly used in spermatorrhea and spermatorrhea, urination, frequent urination, spleen deficiency and prolonged diarrhea, leucorrhea, and bandhida bandhida: a collective term for gynecological diseases in traditional Chinese medicine, and other symptoms.

3, economic value

Gorgon fruit can be used to make wine, making side dishes, while the shell can be processed into dyes, gorgonian whole plant can be made into compost, but also as pig feed to pigs.