Mother-in-law is an edible wild vegetable, belonging to Taraxacum of Compositae. In life, people often call mother-in-law day lily, wood yam, pudding, etc. It is a kind of spring vegetable, which is usually listed in March and April and distributed all over the country, among which the main producing areas in the north are Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and Northeast China.

The leaves of a woman are green and slender, with irregular edges and no obvious serrations. The veins are white, and the height of the plant is about 10 cm. When the seeds mature, there will be stems sticking out and a white plush ball at the top.

Taraxacum mongolicum can be seen in most parts of China, and it is widely distributed in hillside grasslands, roadsides, fields and river beaches in middle and low altitude areas. Dandelion seeds are scattered with the wind, and their reproduction is strong, so dandelion's flower language is unstoppable love.

Harvest:

Dandelion can be harvested by picking the outer big leaves in batches for food, or cutting the leaves except the heart leaves with a sickle for food, and cutting them every 30 days 1 time. When harvesting, you can use a sickle or a knife to pick and cut, and cut the knife parallel to the surface1~ 2 cm, leaving the underground roots to grow new buds. First pick the big plants and harvest them, leaving the medium and small plants to continue to grow.

You can also cut the whole plant at one time and put it on the market. Generally, you can harvest 2000 ~ 2500 kilograms per mu of land at a time. After the whole dandelion plant is cut, the root is damaged and white pulp flows out, so it is not suitable to water it within 10 days to prevent the root from rotting. When dandelion is used as Chinese herbal medicine, the whole grass with roots can be excavated in late autumn, and the mud is removed and dried in the sun for medicinal use.