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莙虙菜
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[b] A variety of general sugar beet, herb, leaf It has a long handle and green flowers. Used as an ornamental and condiment, the leaves are very prosperous, but lack of fleshy roots
A one-year or biennial plant, smooth and hairless, with a stem height of 3-cm, which begins to be extracted when it blooms. The leaves are alternate, with long stalks. The root leaves are ovate or oblong-ovate, up to 3-cm long, with blunt apex, a wedge-shaped or heart-shaped base, and wavy edges. The stem leaves are rhombus, ovate, obovate or rectangular. Round, smaller, the topmost bract becomes a linear bract, the leaves are fleshy and shiny, light green or dark green, and some are purple-red. Flowers are small, bisexual green, sessile, solitary or in clusters of 3, supported by a long, soft, spreading panicle bract, with short-tip perianth lobes, oblong lobes, blunt apex, and the base becomes dull when fruiting. Thick stamens. The ovary is located half inferiorly around the ovary, with styles ~3. The fruit usually grows in clusters, formed by the union of the buds of multiple flowers, and forms a very irregular dry body (often mistakenly called a seed): each seed is contained in the hard shell formed by the flower disk and the perianth. Seeds are transverse, round or kidney-shaped. Flowering period ~ month. Fruiting month.
Cultivation is common in the south and southwest of China. In Sichuan, the red stems and leaves are used as medicine, and they are called red cowhide.