Fish autumn grass, also known as Malan, Malan (Latin name: Kalimeris indica? (Linn.) Sch.) alias fish loach string, loach string, etc., for the daisy family perennial persistent herbaceous plants, the plant is short, clumped. Distributed in eastern and southern Asia. It has high medicinal and dietary value.

There are many varieties of marjoram, and there are three common varieties and three variants. And to the soil adaptability is very strong, but with good water facilities, drainage and irrigation is convenient sandy loam soil is better. Marjoram is usually transplanted in September and covered with plastic trellis in early November.

Happy with fertile soil, drought-resistant and flood-resistant, strong living force, born in vegetable gardens, farmland, roadsides.

The whole herb is used for medicinal purposes, and has the effect of clearing heat and removing toxins, eliminating food stagnation, facilitating urination, dispersing blood stasis and stopping bleeding, and is commonly known as field chrysanthemum and roadside chrysanthemum in Fujian and Guangdong, and is commonly known as fish and loach skewer, loach skewer, loach vegetable in Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Guangxi, and as strawberry lotus in Yunnan. The young leaves are usually eaten as a vegetable, commonly known as "Malan head".

The propagation methods of Marjoram are divided into two types: seed propagation and plant division. Seed propagation is generally not used because of the difficulty of seed collection and the extremely low seedling rate. With the planting propagation (nutrient propagation) method is not only simple and easy to implement, low cost, high survival rate, and the year the seed planting, the year can be harvested.

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