One, the family difference

1, Sha ginseng: Sha ginseng for the plant kingdom, angiosperms, dicotyledonous plants, sympodialia, eustoma, eustoma, eustoma, eustoma subfamily, eustoma, Sha ginseng genus of perennial herbaceous plants.

2, Dangshen: Dangshen for the plant world, angiosperms, dicotyledonous plants, sympodial subclass, Eustoma, Eustoma family, Eustoma subfamily, Eustoma tribe, Dangshen genus, Dangshen subgenus plants.

Two, origin difference

1, ginseng: ginseng alias south ginseng, pickled ginseng, pickled ginseng, white ginseng, mother of pearl, goat's milk, goat's milk, bellwort, tiger's whiskers, etc., like warm or cool climate, distributed in China in Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan and other places.

2, Codonopsis pilosula: Codonopsis pilosula, alias Fangfeng Codonopsis pilosula, Yellow Codonopsis pilosula, Anti-Codonopsis pilosula, Shang Codonopsis pilosula, Lion's Head Codonopsis pilosula, Middle Spirit Grass, Yellow Codonopsis pilosula, etc., preferring mild and cool climate, mostly produced in Tibet, Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu, Shaanxi, Guizhou, Ningxia, Qinghai, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Hebei, Inner Mongolia and other places.

Three, morphological differences

1, sand ginseng: sand ginseng up to 1 m high, with white latex, carrot-shaped roots, unbranched, often covered with short stiff hairs or villous, inflorescences are often unbranched and pseudo-racemes, pedicels are often very short, ellipsoid globose capsule, rarely ellipsoid, brownish-yellow seeds, slightly flattened, there is a pronged, flowering period of August-October.

2, Codonopsis pilosula: Codonopsis pilosula stem base with most of the verrucous stem scars, root often fat fusiform or fusiform cylindrical, stem twining about 1-2 meters long, the leaves in the main stem and the lateral branches of the alternate, the leaf blade ovate or narrowly ovate, the flowers are borne singly in the end of the branch, and the petiole of the leaf is alternate or nearly to the opposite, with stalks, the capsule of lower hemisphere, the upper part of the short cone-shaped. Seeds numerous, ovate, brownish yellow, smooth and glabrous, flowering and fruiting from July to October.

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