The main difference is that the back of the leaves of "Millet" is dull and gray-green, the surface of the leaves is smooth, and there are transverse rhizomes underground. However, the back of "Lulian" leaves is shiny and bright green, with wrinkles on the surface, and there is only one downward straight root underground.

Deer medicine, the scientific name of "broomcorn millet", is a common wild vegetable in Changbai Mountain, which is non-toxic, nutritious and delicious. Lotus and "Panicum miliaceum" belong to Liliaceae. When the deer lotus first grows out of the ground, its leaves are particularly similar to "Panicum miliaceum", but it is highly toxic all over.

When "Millet Millet" and "Lulian" were first unearthed, even experienced villagers could not tell them apart. There are many similar plants. Many plants that look alike belong to the same family.

They grow in similar environments and are easy to get together and grow together. If you go to pick wild vegetables, it is easy to pick them wrong. It is difficult for ordinary people to tell "Lulian" from "Millet" with the naked eye, so we must eat wild vegetables that we don't know or can't distinguish.

Methods of identifying poisonous plants

Before eating, we can distinguish whether wild vegetables are poisonous plants by tasting, shaking and smelling. If there is obvious bitterness, astringency and other strange smell after cooking, it means that the plant may contain alkaloids, tannins and glycoconjugates, which means that the plant may be toxic.

In the folk, plants that are often used as "soil pesticides" are generally toxic and inedible, such as Folium Folliculatum, Pulsatilla chinensis, Ranunculus Ranunculus, Aristolochia orientalis, Euphorbia fischeriana, Dictamni, hemlock, Arisaema orientalis, Arisaema koreanum, Veratrum acutum and so on.

If strong tea is added to the water after cooking wild vegetables, if a large amount of precipitation is produced, it means that the plant may contain alkaloids and heavy metal salts, indicating that the plant may be toxic.

First, put the boiled soup into the teacup, and then shake it vigorously. If a large amount of foam is produced, it means that the plant may contain saponins and may be toxic. After the roots, stems, leaves, etc. of plants are broken, there are special kinds of serous fluid or mucilage, most of which are toxic (except dandelion, sheep milk, platycodon grandiflorum, etc.), such as lotus flower, Euphorbia fischeriana, Euphorbia lindleyana, Euphorbia northeast, etc.

Reference to the above content: China Jilin Net-Millet is very similar to the highly toxic plant Lulian, and it is easy to be poisoned by blind feeding.