-English name: Asian grass jelly
-Scientific name: Mesona chinensis Benth.
-The same species nearby: Mesona procumbens Hemsley
Mesona palustris
-Scientific classification
Order: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae
Genus: grass jelly Mesona
Species: Mesona chinensis
Distribution:
Tree Asian grass jelly(Mesona chinensis Benth.) Originated in East and Southeast Asia, more distributed in Southeast China, Taiwan and Southeast Asia.
This species grows stronger over land areas of grass, sandy and dry.
In Vietnam Asian grass jelly tree grows wild flute in the mountains and later cultivated in many lowland areas like the Mekong Delta and Southeast.
Description:
Tree Asian grass jellyis an annual herbaceous plants.
-Body: Plants 15-50 cm high (up to 1 m). Less branched, rough hairy, hairy.
-Leaves: Leaves reasons, to grow, ovate or oblong, thick. Slim, narrow at the base, pointed at the tip, 3-6 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, leaves have serrated edges. 1-2 cm long leaf.
-Flowers: Clusters of flowers in the hills, dense stands at flowering, which lasts up to 10-12 cm long, have pink bracts at the base, long-stemmed flowers, feathers; hairy stations, 3 teeth in the upper lip; Corolla white or pale pink lips on 3 lobes, lower lip to; II 2, sighed, purple filaments.
-Fruit: Fruit closing smooth, oblong, 0.7 mm long.
Flowering in autumn, winter.
Chemical Composition
No documents found on the chemical composition of plant Asian grass jelly.
Known in the trunk, leaves Asian grass jelly gel containing pectrin, when the body powder, dried leaves soaked in water when water quality guidelines genes form a black stone blocks used as a refreshing drink.
Block this shiny black quartz Vietnam is called the "sương sáo".
