What is the alias of ashwagandha?

It is a kind of annual herbaceous plant, preferring to be born in fields, wasteland, grassland, riverside wetland and roadside, beside the house and in the weeds, and is very adaptable. The flowers of ashwagandha are extremely tiny, and even when they bloom, they often go unnoticed. The blooming florets have five green perianth lobes with protruding stamens and no brightly colored petals; the unopened buds are clustered like small green balls.

The gray ashwaggon is common on wastelands and riverbanks, and flourishes in summer and fall, with smooth-edged leaves, slightly different from most other quinoas; the gray-green quinoa is common in cities, and can be found nourishing in the brick cracks at the foot of the walls, with plants tinged with a little yellow and reddish-brown. The so-called quinoa is the gray vegetable. Is actually a class of plants, today they are collectively referred to as quinoa, under which can be divided into species, are common weeds, the poor and lowly party foraging.

How to identify the different ash greens

1, quinoa

This is one of the most common rural field ash greens, seedlings are tender and nice, it is edible wild vegetables, and so on, until the old seeds are not good. Equivalent to other ashwagandha, quinoa's leaves are slightly wider, its length and width are similar. But when it grows taller, the top leaves are narrower and lance-shaped. The back of the quinoa's leaf blades are more flourished and white.

Quinoa is very vigorous and can grow to over a meter tall if left to grow. However, in the farmland growth, many can not grow up, high up to be pulled out. Rural roadsides, ditches can be seen to grow very tall ashwagandha, in the fall, the stalks dry, cut when still quite hard, stalks are still quite thick, but the texture is very light.

2, gray green quinoa

Gray green quinoa is also known as salt and gray cabbage, its leaves are relatively slender, the middle of the leaf veins are very obvious, yellowish-green, relatively thick, of course, relative to the leaves and other gray cabbage.

Gray green quinoa leaf blade back gray-white, showing powder, and its stem is ribbed, some ribs are red, some are green, the whole plant is not very tall, the high is not half a meter.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Quinoa