It is recommended to make dried kudzu flowers to preserve them for a long time.
We all know that the fresh kudzu flowers are most likely to wither, withered, in fact, you can choose to make fresh kudzu flowers into dried kudzu tea, and can always brew a cup of alcohol to wake up kudzu tea, convenient and valuable, the production of dried kudzu flowers only need to pick fresh kudzu flowers back to the impurities as well as the stalks to the removal, and then spread out in a bamboo basket placed in a cool place to dry for a few days, without exposure to the sun! It can be stored in a sealable glass bottle.
Kudzu flowers generally grow on mountain slopes, roadside bushes and more shady and damp places. In addition to Xinjiang, Tibet, all parts of the country are distributed. Cultivated or wild in mountain thickets and open forests. Distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan and other places.
Difference between kudzu flower and pink kudzu flower
(1) Kudzu flower, flower buds are flat oblong. Open flowers crumpled, calyx gray-green to gray-yellow, calyx teeth 5, lanceolate, about as long as the calyx tube or slightly longer, the upper 2 teeth united, 8-11mm long, the following lobe the longest piece can be as long as 15mm, the other 2 pieces of 5-7mm, inside and outside the gray-white hairs. Corolla blue to blue-purple, gray-yellow when left for a long time, petals suborbicular or oblong, 6-15mm high, 6-12mm wide, apex centrally notched, 0.5-1.0mm deep.
(2)Pink kudzu flowers, buds irregularly oblong or triangular, calyx yellowish-green to grayish-green, calyx teeth significantly longer than the calyx tube, inside and outside the grayish-white hairs, the upper lobes are 2-divided (2 teeth united), 12-7mm long, both inside and outside with grayish-white hairs. The corolla is purple or grayish-purple, yellowish-white to dark yellow when left for a long time, 5 pieces, the flag petals are suborbicular or oblong, 6-20mm high, 6-16mm wide, the apex is cuneate and incised, 1.0-1.9mm deep.