What does Long Kuihua look like?

Long Kuihua can grow to a height of one meter, its stems have no edges and fluff, and its flowers bloom on the branches. It consists of 3-6 small flowers, each with 5 petals.

Long Kuihua looks like a flower as white as jade, which is very similar to the hair clasp on the bun of ancient women in China. The whole plant height of Solanum nigrum is 30- 120 cm, with alternate leaves, oval or heart-shaped, and black berries. Berries and leaves are edible, but leaves contain a lot of alkaloids and must be cooked before detoxification. Long Kuihua consists of clusters of white inflorescences, hanging on the branches, gathering together like white Hosta, like a blooming trumpet-shaped flower, which is called Hosta in many areas.

Originated in China, it is widely distributed in temperate and tropical regions of the world, and distributed all over China, mainly in Lianyungang, Tongshan, Pixian, Sheyang, Funing, Wujiang, Jiangning and Luanyang. Born in fields, roadsides or wasteland. I like warm and humid climate. The requirements for soil are not strict, and relatively fertile sandy loam with good drainage is better.

Morphological characteristics of Long Kuihua

Annual erect herb, 0.25- 1 m high, with boundless stems or inconspicuous edges, green or purple, nearly hairless or puberulent. The leaves are oval, 2.5-10cm long and1.5-5.5cm wide, with short tips and a wedge-shaped base extending down to the petiole, with irregular wavy coarse teeth on the whole or each side, smooth or sparsely pubescent on both sides, 5-6 veins on each side, and the petiole is about1-long.

Calyx is small, shallow cup-shaped, with a diameter of about 65438 0.5-2 mm, oval teeth, round apex and an angle at the junction of two teeth at the base; Corolla white, tube hidden in calyx, less than 65438 0 mm long, edge about 2.5 mm long, 5-parted, lobes oval, about 2 mm long; Filaments are short, anthers are yellow, and the length is about 65438±0.2mm, which is about 4 times the length of filaments, and the apical pore is inward. Berries are spherical, about 8 mm in diameter, and black when mature. Seeds are numerous, nearly ovoid, about 1.5-2 mm in diameter, and both sides are compressed.