Glistening is Glistening Leaf, a spice.

Glistening leaf is a kind of tropical green plant, also called vanilla orchid, glistening leaf, fragrant forest cast, blue blood tree, etc., is a Lu Duc Tree family, Lu Duc Tree genus of plants, is a kind of perennial evergreen shrubs, known as the "Oriental people's vanilla". Glistening leaves like to grow in the sunny, hot and humid environment, mostly in the tropical rainy areas at low altitudes, mainly in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Singapore and other countries.

Glistening leaf is a common spice in Southeast Asia, and has been widely used in the baking and beverage industry. Glistening leaf powder added to cakes, bread, mousse, drinks, ice cream, can make the color of food into a healthy green, aroma, with the unique aroma of petals, taste refreshing, very popular with consumers, some areas of the glistening leaf products is a must-have Netflix.

Morphological Characteristics of Glistening Leaf

Glistening Leaf is an evergreen herb. The above-ground stems are branched and have aerial roots. Leaves are often clustered at the top of branches; they are long sword-shaped, with sharp spines on the margins and abaxially along the midrib, sessile and sheathed. About 30 cm long, about 1.5 cm wide, leaf margin occasionally spiny, leaf tip spines slightly dense, leaf abaxial apex spiny, leaf sheath with narrow white membrane.

Flowers unisexual, dioecious, without perianth; inflorescences spikelike, capitate, or paniculate, spathelike; male flowers numerous, with many stamens per flower; female flowers without staminodes, carpels 1 to many, sometimes in bundles with an indeterminate number of unions; ovary superior, 1- to many-loculed, with 1 ovule per locule, inserted on a near-basal placenta. Fruit a 1 or large or small, globose or ellipsoid, polygamous fruit, composed of numerous woody, angular drupes or drupe bundles; persistent stigma capitate, toothed or horseshoe-shaped, etc.