Summer is not only a hot season, but also a season of vigorous growth of everything, the mountain is full of a variety of wildflowers, including petunias, bowl flowers, wild chrysanthemums, and many other wildflowers that can't be named, with different colors and beauty.

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One of these wildflowers is particularly beautiful, and is called the bellflower in our local area, because the flowers look like bells and get the name bellflower, but in fact, its scientific name is the famous eustoma.

Eustoms for the perennial herbaceous plants in the family of Eustoma, the whole plant is smooth and hairless, the corolla is like a bell, with blue-purple flowers, from a distance look a little bit like petunias, get closer to see to be a lot bigger than petunias, and also beautiful, and when I was a child I often picked its flowers inserted into pots to make a vase, the ornamental value is very high.

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The young leaves of the eustoma is a very tasty mountain vegetables, such as fried eustoma seedling, do filling dumplings, etc., delicious, nutritious and particularly rich, which is rich in rich, rich in vitamins, crude fiber, carotene, eustoma acid and a variety of nutrients.

In fact, the greatest value of eustoma lies in the root, its root thick fleshy, very similar to the ginseng, both as a dish, but also as medicine, often used to make soup to produce medicinal health care soup and drink, has a very good health care effect, but also can be made into a kimchi, tasty and savory, it is a very distinctive folk delicacies.

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Platycodon grandiflorum is a very valuable Chinese herbal medicine, it is dried roots into medicine, has a cough and phlegm, the efficacy of the lungs to expel pus, can be used for coughing and phlegm, sore throat, bronchitis, asthma, carbuncle spitting pus, chest fullness and coercion, dysentery and abdominal pain, eye redness and pain and a variety of other illnesses.

It's hard to imagine that the Eustoma flower blooms so beautifully, and its root value is even higher, friends, your hometown has Eustoma? Tell your parents at home, if you stumble upon it in the mountains, please cherish it, it's valuable and precious, can not be found, especially its root, looks similar to the ginseng, high medicinal value, don't miss it!