Matang and Oxalis are not the same, although they look extremely similar, but oxalis is more common in the process of crop cultivation, affecting the normal growth of crops, Matang grass stems and leaves will slowly grow more and more slender, the plant branching, looks like a piece of growth.
Matang Introduction
Matang annual graminaceous plants, flowering and fruiting in six to September, is a kind of ecological amplitude is quite wide wide spread mesophytes, from temperate to tropical climate can be adapted to the soil requirements are not strict, usually in five to June seedlings, seven to September flowering, eight to October fruit and ripe, the leaf blade is soft, is a good forage, high nutritional value.
Bullgrass Introduction
Bullgrass is an annual weed, the plant grows relatively short, the shortest may only be about ten centimeters, the tallest will not exceed eighty centimeters.
It's leaves are more special, not like ordinary flat leaves, a bit like wheat, more hard, it's roots are very developed, can be rooted in very deep soil, so it's growth ability is also very vigorous.
Difference between Matang and Oxalis
1, Morphology:
Oxalis, also known as Cricket Grass, culms tufted with a sloping base, leaf sheaths loosely glabrous, ligule about a millimeter long, leaf blades linear and spreading, Matang culms erect or lower sloping, leaf sheaths shorter than the internodes scattered wart-base pilose, leaf blades linear lanceolate, margins are thicker and rough.
2, Distribution:
The oxalis is distributed in all provinces and regions of China and in temperate and tropical regions, mostly in barren places and along roadsides, and the matang is produced in Xizang, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Shaanxi, Gansu, Shanxi, Hebei, Henan, and Anhui, etc., and is distributed in subtropical regions.
3, role:
The whole grass of oxalis can be used medicinally, it has the effect of dispersing blood stasis and stopping bleeding, dispelling wind and dampness, clearing heat and removing toxins, and the role of matang has the effect of moistening the lung and brightening up the eyes, it can cure lung-heat coughing, and the eyes are dark and unclear.