Name: Rhizoma Amorphophalli

Nicknames: konjac, Leigong gun, glutinous rice, snake taro, ghost taro.

Scientific name: Amorphophallus konjac

Distribution: Native to India, Ceylon, Viet Nam, Chinese mainland, and also wild in Taiwan Province.

Classification: Araceae

Variety: big bulb species, small bulb species

Type: The plant height is about 40 ~ 70cm, there are bulbs underground, one plant only grows one leaf, with pinnate compound leaves, the petiole is thick and long like a stem, the flowers are purplish red, and the underground bulbs are round and contain a lot of starch, which is translucent food after cooking and cooling.

Flowering period:10 ~11month is the peak season.

Management: sexual preference for high temperature, suitable temperature for fertility is 25 ~ 30 degrees.

Propagation: Propagation can be planted by ramets, molecular balls or bud eyes.

Uses: It is edible vegetable, which has almost no calories. The Japanese call it "gastrointestinal scavenger", which is a natural high-fiber health food.

Known as the "scavenger of stomach soup", it is known as the "God-given medicine". Amorphophallus konjac has the characteristics of high-quality dietary fiber, low calorie, low fat, low protein, strong water absorption and swelling power, etc. It is not only a variety of functional foods and light foods that are needed by human health and represent the new trend in the world, but also has the functions of lowering blood fat, lowering blood sugar, detoxicating, detumescence, bacteriostasis, anti-inflammation, phlegm-resolving, stagnation-resolving, blood stasis-removing and so on.