Cistanchis are mainly produced in Inner Mongolia ( Ulan Buh Desert, Tengger Desert, Badanjilin Desert), Xinjiang (Taklamakan Desert and Gurbantungu Desert), Gansu (Hexi Corridor Sandy Land), Qinghai and Ningxia.

Cistanchis in Inner Mongolia, a specialty of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is a National Geographical Indication product of China.?

Cistanchis, also known as Cistanches and Cistanches, is a parasitic plant that lives on the roots of the desert plant, Pike.

Cistanchis are the dried fleshy stems with scaly leaves of Cistanchis, also known as Cistanche, Cistanches, Ground Essence, and Golden Shoots, of the genus Cistanches in the family of Ledebouriidae. It is also known as Cistanche, Cistanches, and Golden Bamboo Shoots. Historically, it has been used by the countries in the western region as a precious commodity to pay tribute to the court.

Cistanchis parasitize the roots of the half-small trees of the family of Quinoa, which are fast-growing and have a strong regenerative capacity. The pike tree likes to be born on the fixed and semi-fixed desert that is mildly salinized and has a high water table, clumped, and distributed as a sheet.

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Cistanchis growing environment:

Cistanchis is a parasitic plant, the host is pike and white pike and so on. Cistanchis mainly grows in the Gobi Desert environment with extreme arid climate, strong sunshine, annual precipitation less than 250mm, drastic changes of heat and cold, windy and sandy, poorly developed soil, medium and fine sand, thin soil layer with coarse texture, neutral or alkaline, high salinity and lack of organic matter, with many small and light seeds, thousand grain weight of 0.086-0.091g, and long life span of seeds.