This plant is a perennial evergreen herb with medicinal value.
Drip Guanyin, whose scientific name is Alocasia alopecuroides, was called "Guanyin Lotus" and "Shame on Cao Tian" in ancient times, which has the effect of removing air dust.
The white juice in the dripping roots and stems of Guanyin is toxic, and the dripping "water" is also toxic. Skin contact can cause itching or strong irritation, and eye contact can cause severe conjunctivitis and even blindness. The fruit is red and highly toxic.
Erect perennial herb with 2M-high plant, fleshy rhizome underground, long petiole, wide leaf sheath, large leaves, shield-shaped broad arrow, aggregated top of stem, apical tip, microwave at the edge and obvious main vein. The spathe is yellow-green with spikes.
The stems on the ground are stout, sometimes as high as 2-3 meters, and the highest height of the whole plant can reach 5 meters. Creeping rhizomes are 5-8 cm thick, cylindrical, jointed and usually have adventitious buds. Leaves are numerous, spirally arranged; The petiole is stout, with a length of 1.5m, a sheath at the lower part of 1/2 and a sheath at the base of 5- 10cm. Leaves leathery, slightly shiny, green, light back, extremely wide, arrow-shaped, wavy edge, 50-90cm long and 40-80cm wide. The front lobe is broadly ovoid, the tip is tapered, the length and width are equal, and the rear lobe is semi-ovoid. The length is about 1/3 of the anterior lobe, the basal ganglia is short and the curve is round, and the posterior basilar vein is at right angles or acute angles to each other; The vein on the first side of the anterior lobe is 6- 10, which is slightly wider. Peduncle 2-3 clusters, cylindrical, each covered by bracts (scales) 50 cm long and 8 cm wide. The latter is needle-shaped and green. Peduncle length (12-) 50-60 cm, light green. The spatula tube is scanned into a round oval or oval, white and green, 3-5 cm long and 4 cm thick; The eaves are white-green, yellow-green, white again, boat-shaped, rectangular, slightly pointed at the top, slightly bent downward, (10-) 20-30 cm long and (4-) 5-8 cm wide.
Spike: the female inflorescence is cylindrical, with a length of (2-) 3-4 cm, and the sterile male inflorescence is (2.5-) 5-6 cm, which gradually shrinks into a fertile male inflorescence with a length of 3-7 cm; The appendix is conical, milky yellow, thick at the base, 3-5.5 cm long and 1-2 cm thick, with a blunt top and irregular grooves. Female flower: the ovary is prismatic, and the top gradually narrows into an obvious style, the stigma is discoid, the ovule is ovoid, and the basal embryo seat. Sterile male flowers are flat and hexagonal at the top. Berry is bright red, short oval, about 1 cm long and 5-9 mm in diameter. The flowering period is from April to July, and it can also bloom under warm and humid conditions.
It is distributed in tropical rain forests and wild plantain forests at an altitude of 200- 1 100 meters in central and southern Yunnan Province. Sichuan, Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Guangdong and coastal islands, Fujian and Taiwan Province provinces. Foreign countries are distributed in Bangladesh, northeast India (Sika Mountain), Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines.