Often in rural areas chicory will be called bitter chicory vegetable or bitter vegetable, often used as a wild vegetable to fry food. Chicory is a kind of perennial herb, is a kind of medicinal and food plants, chicory has a lot of aliases, the common ones are chicory, bitter vegetable, cascara sagrada, wrinkled-leafed chicory, bright-eyed vegetable, coffee radish and coffee grass these several names.

Chicory in rural aliases

Chicory is a perennial herb, is a kind of medicinal plant, the leaves are edible, chicory aliases there are many, common chicory, bitter vegetable, kasni, wrinkled-leafed bitter chicory, bright-eyed vegetable, coffee radish and coffee grass these several names.

Chicory in the countryside is very common, is a kind of will bloom small blue flowers of weeds, chicory name is more roundabout, usually in the rural chicory will be called bitter chicory vegetable or bitter vegetable, often used as a wild vegetable to fry food.

Chicory origin

Chicory has a very good drought and cold tolerance, generally like to grow in a place where there is enough light, in the countryside chicory distribution range is relatively wide, usually grow in the wasteland, riverside, gutter side and mountain slopes and other places.

Chicory is widely distributed in China, generally chicory is mainly produced in Beijing, Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Xinjiang Altay, Habahe, Fuhai, Tacheng, Toli, Yumin and Jiangxi, etc., and also in Europe, Asia and North Africa are planted.

Chicory looks like

There are not many species of chicory, the common ones are the crumpled-leaf chicory, purple chicory, Puna chicory and German red chicory, the stems of chicory are growing upright, there are sparse strigose hairs on the stems, the leaves are basal, rosette, and the flowers are usually borne singly or in the top of the stems.