Amorphophallus, Araceae Amorphophallus, is a perennial tuber herb. Native to India, Ceylon, Malay Peninsula and southwest China, it has been planted for many years and has been one of the herbs in China ancient books since ancient times. It is distributed in Viet Nam, Himalayas to Thailand, and Gansu and Ningxia in Chinese mainland to Jiangnan provinces, Shaanxi and other places. It grows at an altitude of 3 10 m to 2200 m, and mostly grows at the edge of forest, sparse forest and wet places on both sides of valley.
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Araceae Amorphophallus konjac is a perennial herb. Originated in China. There are bulbs in the ground, and the stems on the ground are sixty or seventy centimeters long. The leaves are palmately compound, and the leaflets are mostly pinnately divided. In summer, flowers are born from old stems and are purple-brown; Spikelets, giant Buddha buds, are shaped like Tiger Claw and Pinellia, and the upper part of floral axis is huge as a pole. Bulbs can be used for food, starch and paste, and can also be made into diuretics and laxatives. Konjac A general term for paste and grass.
China began to cultivate konjac more than 2000 years ago, and its edible history is quite long. Zuo Si, a great writer in the Western Jin Dynasty, made Luoyang's paper expensive. In the famous book Shu Du Fu, it is said that "boiled with ash juice will turn into ice, and bitter wine will drown food, and Shu people cherish it."
Such a record. According to legend, a long time ago, Taoist priests in Emei Mountain, Sichuan Province made snow konjac tofu with konjac tuber starch. It was brownish yellow in color, shaped like a porous sponge, delicious and full of flavor, and it was the treasure of Emei Mountain.
Amorphophallus, a common name, is a perennial herb in Araceae. The underground part of plants consists of deformed and shortened spherical fleshy tubers and rhizomes, notochord roots and fibrous roots from their upper ends.
China has a long history of cultivation and consumption. As early as 3000 years ago, China began to cultivate and utilize konjac. Distributed in Shaanxi, Ningxia and Gansu to the south of the Yangtze River basin. Amorphophallus konjac is born in sparse forests, forest margins or wetlands or cultivated on both sides of the valley.