This is kudzu.

Wild kudzu usually grows in valleys and sometimes in the cracks of rocks. Nevertheless, finding wild kudzu is not a difficult task because the kudzu teng emanates roots from a mother teng outward, and the roots all grow along the ground.

As long as you follow the trail, you will be able to find the mother teng. The bigger the mother teng, the bigger the kudzu root underneath. Wild kudzu is slightly yellowish in color. The taste is slightly sour and slightly medicinal. Otherwise, it may be artificially grown kudzu.

Kudzu powder comes from the tuberous roots of the legume Pueraria lobata, because it is rich in starch, it is widely used by the folk, brewing, porridge, pancakes, stir-fry, making kudzu jelly, soup can be, and kudzu powder is one of them, made from freshly ground kudzu, after grinding, slurry and dregs separation, sedimentation, drying and other processes.

Expanded

Grass a, first seen in the "Shennong Ben Cao Jing", such as in the next category recorded in the "hook kiss a kudzu" sentence, the Ming Li Shizhen in the "Compendium of Materia Medica," Volume XVII, "Poisonous herbs class

And said, "Although the grass is called kudzu, not the wild root of kudzu," and pointed out: kudzu was born in the south of Guizhou, village pike between all the lanes, was commonly known as hook kiss ear, is a poisonous plant.

Pterocarpaceae, spring, fall harvest, born on grassy slopes, roadsides or sparse forests, in addition to Xinjiang, Tibet, the rest of the region are distributed, the Chinese name of kudzu, also known as kudzu vine, kudzu strips of the world of plants in the family of pterocarpaceae genus Ge species distribution area of our country, in addition to Xinjiang, Tibet, the rest of the region are distributed.