1, carrot:
Carrot is an annual or biennial herb of the genus Carrot in Umbelliferae. Roots are fleshy, oblong, conical, orange-red or yellow; The stem is solitary, and the whole plant is covered with white coarse bristles; The fruit is oval with white bristles on the edge. Flowering period may-July. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "The Yuan Dynasty began in Woody, and the smell was slightly like radish, hence the name." Carrots get their name.
2. Lotus root:
Lotus root, the rhizome of perennial aquatic herbs in the lotus family. The rhizome of this plant is horizontal and thick; Flowers float on the water, and the petals are oval or obovate; The fruit ripening period is September-65438+1October. As for the lotus root, it was first recorded in The Book of Songs Zheng Feng, a folk song of the Chinese people in the pre-Qin period: "There are floating elements in the mountains, and there are flowers in Hebei", in which "lotus" means lotus root.
3. Nostoc flagelliforme:
Nostoc flagelliforme is an algae plant belonging to Nostoc and Nostoc family. The algae are hairy, straight or curved, brown, and brown-black after drying. Many algae are often tangled together. Widely distributed all over the world, it grows in arid and semi-arid areas with poor soil at an altitude of 1000-2800 meters. Because of its black and slender color, it is named after human hair and is edible.
4. Litchi:
Litchi is an evergreen tree of Litchi in Sapindaceae. Litchi has even pinnate compound leaves, hairless, stipitate and slender lateral veins; No petals; The stone is fruity and nearly spherical; The seeds are all wrapped in fleshy arils. The flowering period of litchi is from March to April, and the fruiting period is from May to August. Litchi's name comes from Sima Xiangru's Shanglin Fu, which was written as "Litchi" and changed to "Litchi" in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
5. Longan:
Longan, an evergreen tree plant of Sapindus of Sapindaceae, has flowering period in spring and summer and fruiting period in summer. Ancient people compared longan, a spherical fruit, to various eyes. The big longan is called longan, the middle one is called tiger eye, and the smallest one is called ghost eye, but modern people call it longan.