The difference between Gastrodia elata and ginseng

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1. Differences between plants

2. The difference between flowers

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Plant differences: Gastrodia elata plants are 30 to 100 centimeters high, with rhizomes, oval, and fleshy; ginseng's main roots are 30 to 60 centimeters high, fleshy, yellow-white, and oval-shaped leaves. Flower differences: Gastrodia elata racemes, flower bracts are oblong-lanceolate; ginseng flowers are umbel-shaped, light yellow-green flowers, with 5 petals, oval.

1. Differences between plants

1. Plant differences

The Gastrodia elata plant is 30 to 100 centimeters tall, sometimes reaching 2 meters. Its rhizome is thick, tuber-shaped, oval or close to a dumbbell shape, fleshy, and 8 meters long. to 12 cm, 3 to 5 cm in diameter, sometimes larger. The stems are upright, orange, yellow, gray-brown or blue-green in color, without green leaves.

The main root of ginseng is 30 to 60 cm high. , thick, fleshy, yellow-white in color, with upright, cylindrical stems. It has palmately compound leaves with 3 to 5 leaflets. The leaves are oval or obovate, 4 to 15 cm long, 2 to 6.5 cm wide, and have finely serrated edges.

二, Flower differences

Gastrodia elata racemes, 5 to 30 cm long. There are 30 to 50 small flowers in the inflorescence. The bracts of the flowers are oblong-lanceolate, 1 to 1.5 cm long, membranous, and the flowers are twisted. The flowers are orange, yellow-white, blue-green or light yellow.

Ginseng blooms in summer with umbels. , a single terminal sprout among the leaves, the total pedicel is 30 cm long, each inflorescence has 4 to 40 small flowers, the bracts are strip-lanceolate, the petals are 5, oval, entire, and the flowers are light yellow. green.

2. The difference between flowers

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