The plant that looks like an onion is called Tiger's Eye Nianqing, and the scientific name of Dry Panax ginseng is Jingtian Panax ginseng, which is not the same kind of plant. The following specific introduction:
The main difference:
One, the subject classification is different
1, tiger's-eye Nianqing
Also known as the sea onion, bird's milk flower, glass bulb flower, gourd orchid, Lanqi. Belongs to the order of lilies, lily family, tiger's eye Nelumbo nucifera genus plants. The species of each growth of a leaf, bulb foreskin will grow a few small boy ball, shaped like a tiger's eye, so the name tiger's-eye Wannian. And because of its bulbous bulb like gourd, so also commonly known as gourd orchid.
2, Sedum panax pseudoginseng
Also known as soil panax pseudoginseng, Fei Cai, dry panax pseudoginseng, stone vegetable orchid, nine lotus flowers. It belongs to Rosaceae, Sedum family, Sedum genus.
Two, different morphological characteristics
1, tiger's eye perennial
Perennial herbs. Length 30-60 cm, width 2.5-5 cm, leaves basal, banded or long lanceolate, sometimes slightly fleshy, tip caudate-oblong pointed, apex caudate and often twisted, evergreen, subleathery. Scape 45--100 cm tall, stouter, often slightly curved, racemes arranged in terminal racemes or corymbs with numerous, crowded flowers. Bracts striate-narrowly lanceolate, green, rapidly withered but not deciduous, filaments flattened, base enlarged, anthers dorsifixed, inwardly dehiscent, style shortly terete or filiform, stigma undivided or shallowly 3-lobed. Capsule obovoid-globose, 3-angled or 3-lobed. Seeds a few to many, testa black.
2, Sedum panax
Perennial fleshy herb. Up to 80 cm tall. Leaves alternate, or nearly opposite, broadly ovate to oblanceolate, tip obtuse or slightly pointed, margin denticulate, or nearly entire, base attenuate, smooth or slightly papillate rough. Corymbose cymes terminal, sessile or subsessile. Seeds smooth, margin narrowly winged, wider apically.
Three, the value of the efficacy of different
1, tiger's-eye Nianqing
①, medicinal
Tiger's-eye Nianqing has the function of clearing away heat and detoxification to eliminate the solid and dissipate the knot.
②, ornamental
Tiger's eye perennial green, elegant and simple, texture like agate, with a sense of transparency, resembling the clouds of flying sparrows, flowering in mid-April to early May, the flowers are white, orange and heavy petal species, both in the landscaping as a foundation planting or ground cover plants to adapt to the layout of the yard and the rock garden of the excellent material, and also suitable for pots for the indoor and the northern balcony of the foliage plants, clear the mind! It is also suitable for potting as indoor and north balcony foliage plant, clearing the mind.
2, Jingtian panax pseudoginseng
①, medicinal
The whole herb is used for medicinal purposes, and it has the effect of stopping bleeding, relieving pain, dispersing blood stasis and reducing swelling.
②, ornamental
Used in flower beds, flower borders, ground cover, but need to be separated, rock gardens are often used as other border plants, but also potted or hanging plants, regulating air humidity, embellish the terrace courtyard and so on.
③, edible
Jingtian Panax quinquefolium is a kind of health care vegetable, the fresh edible part contains protein, carbohydrate, fat, crude fiber, carotene, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin C, calcium, phosphorus, iron, oleanolic acid, glutenol, alkaloids, jingtian heptulose, flavonoids, organic acids and other components. It has no bitter flavor, good taste, can be fried, can be stewed, can be burned soup, can be cold and so on.
Baidu Encyclopedia - Tiger's Eye Vannamei
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