Alias: Tian Sanqi Tian Sanqi, Tofu Vegetable, New Vine Vegetable

Family: Perennial Herbaceous Plants of Deciduous Anemone Family

Distribution:

China's Yunnan, Sichuan, Hubei, Taiwan `s provinces are cultivated, to bead buds and leaves for food.

Morphological Characteristics

Vine Panax quinquefolium is a small perennial fleshy vine plant of the family of deciduous anemones, with a well-developed root system, and tubers can be formed underground after half a year of planting. The stems are round, young stems are green, old mature stems become brown, and the roots are easy to produce adventitious roots on the nodes.

Leaves alternate, heart-shaped, 8-15 centimeters long, 9-16 centimeters wide, 0.2 centimeters thick, fleshy, plump, smooth, glabrous, short-stalked, leaf axils can grow tuberous bead buds, 2-4 centimeters long, 1-3 centimeters wide.

Spikes are produced from leaf axils in the fall, with inflorescences about 20 cm long. Flowers small, pendulous, corolla 5-merous, white-green, in Guangzhou flowers but not solid.

Growth habit

The vine panax pseudoginseng likes high temperature, the growth temperature of 25 ℃ ~ 30 ℃, cold hardy, meet the 0 ℃ below the low temperature or severe frost, the above ground stems and leaves withered, and then sprouted from the underground tubers in the spring. It is both moisture and drought resistant.

Growing well in a variety of soils.

In the vast areas south of the Yangtze River can be cultivated in the open ground, in the north can be cultivated in the greenhouse anniversary, balanced supply of market.

Cultivation Methods

Vine panax pseudoginseng is generally propagated asexually, and can be propagated by cuttings of branches, bead buds or underground tubers.

The cuttings are taken at a distance of 10 centimeters, and the roots will emerge in 5-7 days after insertion, and the seedlings will be ready in 20-30 days. Suitable for shelf cultivation, but also can climb the ground cultivation or potted plants, usually using field panax pseudoginseng substrate cultivation.

Nutritional value

Vine panax pseudoginseng is rich in nutrients, and the leaves contain protein, fat, and various minerals, and the content of vitamin A is as high as 5,644 international units per 100 grams of fresh leaves, and the content of vitamin C is 28 milligrams to 33.7 grams.

The leaves are slightly bitter, no other special flavor.

Vine Panax quinquefolium bead buds are used as medicine, with slightly sweet flavor after boiling, chewing with viscosity, and flat nature, which can reduce swelling and dissipate blood stasis, and tonify the deficiency to stop bleeding.

Tian Sanqi can cure nameless swelling and poison, bleeding from trauma, vomiting blood, and weakness of waist and knees.

Vine Panax quinquefolium leaves are blanched in boiling water for two or three minutes, then mixed with seasonings, can be stir-fried, can also be stir-fried with cashews, shredded meat, and can also be used as a soup, which has a crisp and tender flavor. The buds and underground tubers are stewed with chicken and meat.

Slightly sweet flavor, smooth texture, nourishing