China's cultivation of leafy green vegetables, especially rich in resources, *** there are more than 20 kinds of 13 families. Commonly cultivated and eaten mainly including spinach, lettuce, celery, chrysanthemum, amaranth, water spinach, coriander, shepherd's purse, drop sunflower, golden cauliflower, winter chilly, fennel, chrysanthemum brain, leafy sugar beet, purple back of sunflower, Artemisia vulgaris, chicory, bitter buy vegetables, fanciful, basil, elm, and so on.

1, spinach

Spinach (Spinacia oleracea? L.), also known as Persian, red root vegetables, parrot cabbage, etc., belongs to the quinoa family spinach, annual herbs. Plants up to 1 meter high, root conical, reddish, less often white, leaves hastate to ovate, bright green, entire or with a few tooth-like lobes. There are many species of spinach, which can be categorized into two variants according to seed morphology: the spiny species and the spineless species.

2, lettuce

Lettuce (scientific name: Lactuca sativa? Linn.) is the Asteraceae, lettuce annual or biennial herbs. It is 25-100 centimeters tall, with erect, solitary stems, basal and lower stem leaves large, undivided, oblanceolate, elliptic, or elliptic-oblanceolate, apically acute, shortly acuminate, or rounded, sessile, and leaves on the lower panicle branches and on the upper panicle branches extremely small.

Ovate-cordate, sessile. Heads numerous or very numerous, arranged in panicles at the tips of stem branches. Achenes oblanceolate, compressed, light brown, apically acute into a fine beak, the beak finely filiform, several times as long as the achenes, flowering and fruiting February-September.

3, celery

Celery, belonging to the umbelliferae, many varieties, in China has a long history of cultivation and a large area of cultivation, is one of the Chinese people often eat vegetables, which is rich in protein, carbohydrates, carotene, B vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, iron, sodium and so on.

At the same time, it has the efficacy of calming the liver and clearing away heat, dispelling wind and dampness, removing vexation and eliminating swelling, cooling the blood and stopping hemorrhage, detoxifying and promoting the lungs, strengthening the stomach and the blood, clearing the intestines and facilitating the bowel movement, moistening the lungs and stopping coughs, lowering blood pressure, and strengthening the brain and calming the mind.

4, Chrysanthemum coronarium

Coronarium (Chrysanthemum coronarium? L.) also known as the same as artemisia, artemisia, artemisia, chrysanthemum, pond artemisia, artemisia rods, artemisia, ponticola, tung flower cabbage (in Fujian and other places are also known as goose cabbage, Yi vegetable).

An annual or biennial herb in the order of Orchidaceae, family of Asteraceae, genus Chrysanthemum, with alternate, oblong pinnatifid leaves and yellow or white flowers, much like wild chrysanthemums. Achene prongs, two or three feet high, stems and leaves are edible when young, and can also be used as medicine.

5, amaranth

Amaranth, also known as green amaranth, red amaranth, red cabbage, rice amaranth, etc., for the amaranth family to the young stem and leaves for food annual herb, native to China, the Yangtze River Basin is widely cultivated, because of its resistance, easy to grow, like heat, drought, humidity, and fewer pests, is one of the popular favorite summer leafy green vegetables?

Amaranth is a kind of high nutritional value of vegetables, especially contains more iron, calcium and other minerals, but also contains more carotene and vitamin C, folk "June amaranth, when the egg; July amaranth, gold," said.

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