Aralia elata, also known as Liaodong _ wood, Aralia elata, Aralia elata, Aralia elata, and Aralia elata, belongs to Araliaceae _ wood. Likes acidic soil and grows beside ditches at an altitude of 250 ~1000 m. It grows under mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forests, glades, forest margins, thickets, or burned and cut lands in mountainous areas, and is more common on sunny slopes in mountainous areas.
The thorn bud is a shrub or a small tree, with a height of 1.5-6 meters and a gray bark; Branchlets gray-brown, sparsely spiny; Spine length 1-3 mm, base swelling; There are often slender straight spines as long as 1.5 cm on the shoots.
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Growth characteristics of thorn buds
1 stem
Grayish brown, with thorns, the more tender the school is, the denser the thorns are, and it gradually falls off when it is old. Its pith is larger, accounting for more than 1/2 of the stem diameter. Most of the proofreading strips are distributed in the upper part of the stem. After the upper branches are destroyed, new branches can sprout from the lower latent buds.
2. Root
The root system of Aralia elata is developed, which is distributed at a depth of about 20cm underground, and the longest is about 3m, and it has the ability to propagate seedlings.
Harvesting of thorn buds
1, spiny old teeth can be picked from spring to early summer, but it is better if the tender leaves are not stretched in late spring. After summer, the young leaves become old and can't be eaten. In late summer and early autumn, the top of the tree opens an umbrella-shaped milky white flower, and its fruit is turquoise at first and black when it matures. After budding in spring, the tender buds are picked.
2. After breaking off the terminal bud, 1-5 lateral buds or secondary buds of the terminal bud germinate. Therefore, it can be picked many times, preferably 2-3 times, instead of picking many times, so as to avoid tiring trees. It is appropriate to pick the buds at10-15 cm, and the leaves of the lateral buds are not yet unfolded. It can be picked at 5-10 cm, and then put them in the basket.
Reference Baidu Encyclopedia-thorn bud