Desert Cistanche Tubulosa's unique biological characteristics

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The power of nature is immeasurable, it is like a magician, changing many wonderful scenes. The vast universe, the vast wasteland, and the endless prairie are all masterpieces of nature. Similarly, Cistanche tubulosa is also an elf that lives in the world, but it does not appear in the deep forest but grows in the boundless desert.

Cistanche tubulosa

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Cistanche tubulosa has unique biological characteristics:

Cistanche tubulosa is a perennial parasitic herb, also known as Tamarisk Dayun. Once the fleshy stems of Cistanche tubulosa are unearthed and stimulated by sunlight, they immediately turn from vegetative growth to reproductive growth, begin to bloom and firm, the nutrients in the fleshy stems are exhausted, and the hollows wither.

Cistanche seeds have a long lifespan, small and large, with a thousand-grain weight of about 0.09g, and generally, 1-3 million seeds per plant; when the seeds are matured and buried in sand, the hairy roots of the Tamarisk root system will grow in contact with the umbilicus of the Cistanche seeds, and the seeds will be stimulated It begins to germinate, parasitizes on the roots of tamarisk, grow for one or several years and unearths the results, completing a life cycle.

Cistanche tubulosa growth cycle

Cistanche tubulosa is 60-100cm high, and the above-ground part is 30-35cm high.

The stem is unbranched, the base diameter is 3-4cm; the leaves are milky white, brown after drying, triangular, 2-3cm long, and 5mm wide, and the tapered stems that are born on the upper part of the stem are triangular-lanceolate or lanceolate;

Spikes, 12-18cm long, 5-6cm in diameter; bracts oblong-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 2-2.7cm long, 5-6.5mm wide, with pilose edges, glabrous on both sides; small Two bracts, linear-lanceolate or spoon-shaped, 15-17cm long, nearly glabrous.

Calyx is tube-shaped, 15-18mm long, 5-lobed at the top to near middle, lobes are the same as corolla tube, milky white, yellowish-white after drying, nearly equal in size, long ovate triangle or lanceolate, 6-10mm long, corolla tube Funnel-shaped, 4cm long, 5-lobed apex, lobes purplish when the flower buds, turn brown when dried, nearly equal in size, nearly round, 8mm long, 1cm wide, hairless on both sides.

Cistanche tubulosa growth cycle

4 stamens, filaments inserted 7-8mm from the base of the tube, 15-17mm long, swollen at the base and densely covered with yellow-white pilose, anthers ovoid, 4-6mm long, densely covered with yellow-white pilose, medicine The base of the chamber is blunt and round, without a small pointed tip;

Ovary is long ovoid, style length 22-25mm, stigma oblate, 2-lobed; capsule oblong, length 10-12mm, diameter 7mm. The seeds are mostly round, and turn black after drying, with a net shape on the outside; the flowering period from May to June, fruit period from July to August.

Cistanche tubulosa growth cycle

Cistanche tubulosa, with its unique biological characteristics, exists in the vast desert. It is a work of art created by nature, and it is also the spirit of nature in the desert.

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