The crab claw tree will still grow crabs. In the countryside there is a parasitic plant, few people recognize him, this plant looks like the appearance and looks like a crab's foot, so local people call it crab's foot, just because this plant is parasitic, so many people do not like him, because it will absorb the nutrients of its host plant.

The crab's foot, also known as the hermit crab, is mainly found in southern and southeastern Tibet, Yunnan and Sichuan, where the plant must parasitize other plants and suck up their nutrients. Crab's foot mainly grows in mountain forests at an altitude of 200 to 700 meters, its parasites are usually large trees, we can see him in the common persimmon and maple trees, the leaves of this parasitic plant grow like scales, flowering and fruiting period in April to December.

In the past, farmers saw the farmers to eradicate, but they do not know the value of this parasitic plant is precious, and now the price has reached 10,000 yuan a catty, crab foot is now considered a classification of Pu'er tea, it is usually parasitic in the branches of the ancient tea tree, quietly absorbing the nutrients of the tea tree in the folklore is usually used to soak it in water and drink it can be solved hundred of poisons.

Crab's foot long in the tree when the color is green, after picking the sun will become brownish-yellow, it's shaped like a crab's foot, like coral, smell there is a strong similar to the smell of fungus and grass, in general, crab's foot, usually in the hundreds of years of the ancient tea tree can be found, and it's very slow-growing, in the people know it's value, because of the over-picked, the parasitic plants of wild The quantity is extremely rare, so its market price is high.