1. Is wild celery celery?
Wild celery is not celery. The Chinese name of wild celery, Hemlock, is also known as Pulsatilla, Poisonous Ginseng, Piggy Bean Leaves, Spotted Piggy Bean and so on. , a perennial herb of Hemlock in Umbelliferae, distributed in the north temperate zone, and distributed in the watersides and ditches of swamps in Northeast, Northwest and North China in China. Its leaves are like celery leaves, which bloom in summer, and the whole tree has a stench.
Second, the introduction of wild celery
1, the height of wild celery is 70~ 100 cm, the taproot is short, the branches are fleshy or fibrous, the rhizome is jointed, and there is a diaphragm inside, which is brown. The stem is upright and solitary, cylindrical, hollow, striped, sometimes slightly lavender at the base, branched at the upper part, and the branches rise and spread. Leaf sheaths are membranous, leaf outlines are triangular or triangular-lanceolate, lobes are linear-lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, and there are short stalks with upper cauline leaves. The leaves are divided into basal leaves, the terminal lobes are narrowly lanceolate, and the edges are sparsely serrated.
2. The compound umbel of wild celery is terminal or axillary. The involucral bracts are usually absent or 1 linear bracts, and the small involucral bracts are mostly linear lanceolate. Umbellies have flowers 15~35, and flower stalks are 4~7 mm long. Calyx teeth are obvious, oval and triangular. Petals are white, obovate or nearly round, with an inflexed uvula at the top, filaments about 2.5 mm long, and anthers nearly ovoid. When young, the style is flat at the base, short and inflexed outward. Meristem is nearly ovoid, with contracted symphysis, broad main ribs, cork and slightly concave endosperm ventral surface. The flowering and fruiting period is July-August.
3. Wild celery is born under miscellaneous trees, wetlands or ditches at an altitude of 400 ~ 2,900 meters, and distributed in the Far East of the Soviet Union, Mongolia, Korea, Japan and other parts of the world. Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Xinjiang, and Xinghua, Jiangsu have also been cultivated in history.
4. Wild celery is one of the highly toxic plants, and its toxic component, toxigenin, is a neutral resinous substance, which has the effect of tetrandrine-like, easily soluble in alcohol and alkaline solution, and mainly contained in roots and other parts. Toxins are easily absorbed, and people are poisoned after eating for a few minutes, and their lips often blister (even blood bubbles). The main toxicity is in the central nervous system, which has a very obvious spasmodic effect. After poisoning, dizziness, vomiting, spasm, red and blue skin, paralysis and death from respiratory failure. The human poisoning dose is 30 ~ 60mg, and the death dose is120 ~150mg.