Fire Hemp generally refers to marijuana, cultivated over a wide area, in most of our country are cultivated, grows in Yunnan Red Earth Plateau among the mountains and fields. Cannabis is originally distributed in Bhutan, India and Central Asia, now countries have wild or cultivated.
Fire hemp properties
Fire hemp growth adaptability, planting is mainly the use of mountainous dry land, without the need to take up the good land, low latitude climate, monsoon climate and highland climate of the integrated characteristics of the natural conditions are very suitable for the growth of fire hemp.
What does the fire hemp look like
The fire hemp is an erect annual herb, 1~3 meters high. Branches with longitudinal grooves, densely gray-white appressed hairs. Leaves palmately divided, lobes lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, specifically female plants by drying flowers and trichomes. Cannabis cultivation can be stripped of hemp to collect seeds. There are females and males. The male plant is called _, the female plant is called tho.
Shape: male inflorescences of fire hemp up to 25 cm long; flowers yellowish-green, membranous, outside covered with fine ambrosial hairs, filaments very short, anthers oblong; female flowers green; perianth tightly wrapped around the ovary, slightly covered with small hairs; ovary subglobose, wrapped around the outside in bracts. Achenes enclosed by persistent yellow-brown bracts, pericarp fragile, surface finely reticulate.
Leaves: Flax leaves palmately divided, lobes lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, base narrowly cuneate, surface dark green, slightly hispid, abaxial surface densely covered with gray-white appressed hairs when young and then glabrous, margin coarsely serrate curved inward, midvein and lateral veins slightly sunken on the surface and elevated on the abaxial surface; petiole densely covered with gray-white appressed hairs; stipules linear.
Color: the color of fire hemp to fresh white and yellowish white or yellowish is good, mixed color is not good, and the quality of black is the worst.
Fire hemp role and value
Daily use: fire hemp main active chemical component is tetrahydrocannabinol, in smoking or oral administration has psychoactive and physiological effects. The stem bark fiber of this species is long and tough, can be used to weave hemp cloth or spinning, making rope, weaving fishing nets and papermaking; seed extraction of oil, oil content of 30%, can be used to make paints, coatings, etc., the oil residue can be used as fodder.
Medicinal use: the fruit of flax Chinese medicine called flaxseed or cannabis kernel into medicine, the nature of the flat taste sweet, the main treatment of fecal dryness and knotting. Flowers called "hemp Bo", the main treatment of bad wind, menstrual closure, forgetfulness. Fruit shell and bracts called "hemp _", toxic, treatment of labor injuries, breaking the accumulation, dispersal of pus, more than serving people crazy; leaves containing narcotic resin can be prepared anesthetics.