The difference between Chicken Head Rice and Gorgonzola is that Chicken Head Rice is the fresh Gorgonzola seed and Gorgonzola is the dried matured seed, they are in fact the same plant seed and there is no significant difference.

In essence chicken head rice is gorgonzola, just in the name of different, they are a plant seed. If you have to say there is a difference, then the chicken head rice is relatively fresh, contains more water, eat more tender. While Gorgonzola is a seed that has been dried after maturity, and when you eat it you have to cook it a bit longer.

Chicken head rice is fresh Gorgonzola, moisture content is higher, so cooking is easier to cook, usually after the water boiled with the lid on the pot to cook 15-20 minutes will be able to cook. But if it is dry gorgonzola, it is more difficult to cook, you need to soak in water for 2-3 hours, and then cook for about an hour to be able to cook.

A, growing environment:

Gorgonians in China are distributed throughout the north and south, from Heilongjiang in the north, south to Guangdong, Yunnan. Mainly grow in ponds and lakes and swamps. Gorgon fruit is divided into wild species and cultivated species, there are more than 20 varieties, wild species also known as the northern gorgonian or thorn gorgonian, mainly produced in jiangsu hongze lake, bao ying lake, gaoyou lake area, cultivated species also known as su gorgonian or southern gorgonian, native to jiangsu taihu lake basin area, the current cultivation area is relatively large.

Two, appearance characteristics:

An annual large aquatic herb, there are also two types, submerged leaves arrow-shaped or elliptic kidney-shaped, seven or eight centimeters long, two sides without thorns, floating leaves leathery, elliptic kidney-shaped or rounded, 10-120 centimeters in diameter, peltate, entire, below the purple, with short hairs, two sides in the veins of the divergence of the sharp thorns.

Leaf petioles and petioles stout, up to about 20 centimeters long, both with stiff spines; flowers about 5 centimeters long, sepals 4, lanceolate, purple on the inner side, with dense slightly curved stiff spines on the outer side, petals purplish-red, arranged in several whorls, with red stigmas, blooming in July and August. Berry globose, about three centimeters in diameter, purplish-red, outside densely covered with stiff spines, seeds globose, about 10 millimeters in diameter, black, fruit ripening in August and September.