How to identify Vajra Seal Script

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1. Stem

2. Leaves

3. Flowers

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Stem: cylindrical, with more branches on the upper part. Leaves: alternate, fleshy, growing on the ridge at the top of the young shoots, obovate or obovate-oblong to spatulate-shaped, with a small convex tip at the top, short petioles, and spiny stipules. Flowers: dichotomous and axillary, with broad, bell-shaped bracts.

1. Stem

1. Stem

The stem of Vajra Compilation is cylindrical, with more branches in the upper part, and 5 less obvious ridges. The ridges are arranged in a spiral shape, the color is green, and the pith is nearly Pentagonal shape.

2. Leaves

King Kong Compilation The leaves are alternate, fleshy, usually in five rows growing on the top ridge of the twigs, obovate or obovate-oblong to spoon-shaped, about 4.5-12 cm long, 1.3-30.8 cm wide, with a small tip at the top. The convex tip is blunt, the base gradually narrows, the entire edge, the petiole is short, the veins are not obvious, and the stipules are spiny.

3. Flowers

King Kong Compilation The inflorescence is dichotomous and axillary, with a stalk at the base and 2 bracts. The involucral bracts are broad and bell-shaped, and the lobes are semicircular, with cilium on the edges, like incurving. There are many male flowers with filamentous bracts and one female flower.

2. Leaves

3. Flowers

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