Alias:
Jasmine grass, boiled soup flower, maniu flower, rouge flower, night flower, thunder flower, official pink flower, tide flower, night Jiao Jiao, bath flower, bean curd flower and late camellia.
Purple jasmine (grass flower spectrum), rouge flower (grass flower spectrum), bean curd flower (plant name and real scene), cordate telosma flower (Shanghai), Zhuangyuanhua (Shaanxi), clove leaf, bitter clove, wild clove (southern Yunnan materia medica), cordate telosma flower (Beijing) and wild jasmine flower (Beijing) [Cordate telosma flower collection]
Mirabilis jalapa, a herbaceous flower, is native to tropical America, widely introduced and domesticated in temperate to tropical regions of the world, and is often cultivated as an ornamental flower in north and south regions of China. It is one of the alien invasive species in China. Mirabilis jalapa likes humid climatic conditions and is not cold-tolerant. In winter, the aboveground parts will die, and the underground parts of the south of the Yangtze River can safely overwinter and become perennial grass flowers, and new plants will continue to grow in the next spring. Mirabilis jalapa is more than 1 m, with thick roots, erect stems, many branches, hairless or sparsely hairy, slightly swollen nodes, and purplish red, yellow, white or variegated flowers. The flowering period is June-June, 438+October, and the fruiting period is August-June, 438+065, 438+October. The root of Mirabilis jalapa contains amino acids, organic acids and a lot of starch, and the flower contains many yellow pigments such as betaxanthin, which has winning value.