Chicken bean rice

Chicken bean rice Chicken bean rice alias: chicken head rice, chicken head lotus, thorn lotus. Chicken's head rice, that is, fresh Gordon Euryale, also known as chicken's head meat, commonly known as chicken's head, has a spherical fruit with a protruding tip, which is like a chicken's head, and has the functions of strengthening spleen and benefiting qi, consolidating kidney and astringent essence. Annual aquatic herb with prickly whole plant. Underground stems are thick and short. The primary leaves are submerged, arrow-shaped and small, and the later leaves float on the water surface, with a shield-shaped or shield-shaped heart shape, with a diameter of up to 130cm. The upper part is wrinkled, the lower part is purple, and the petiole and veins are prickly. Flowers are solitary at the top of pedicels, sticking out of the water; Sepals 4, spiny; Petals are numerous, purplish red; Stamens are numerous; Ovary inferior, 8-loculed, stigma disc-shaped. Berry chicken head-shaped, spongy, dark purple-red, densely spiny. Seeds spherical, about 1cm in diameter, black. The flowering period is from June to September, and the fruiting period is from July to October. Cultivated or wild in lakes and ponds. The kernel is spherical, with a diameter of 5-8 mm. There is a brownish-red endosperm on the surface, one end is yellow and white, and there is a concave hilum mark. It is white after removing the endosperm. Hard texture, white cross section and silty.
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