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【alphabetic
writing】 Shā Jiè
【Another
name】sand
radish, sand cabbage (<Chinese Herbs in Inner Mongolia>)
【Source】 pugionium
cornutum, a plant in Cruciferae family, is harvested in summer
and autumn, dried in shady place after cutting into pieces or
under sunshine after heating hot water for a short time.
【Original
plant】a
juicy perennial herb with 50 to 100 cm high, single leaves, long
roots and straight stem with many branches from the bottom. The
leaves at the bottom grow like feathers with sharp ends, and the
oblanceolate leaves on stem have round or wavy edge. It has
racemes or panicles of flower heads. The flowers are white or
yellow, with four oblanceolate sepals and four linear-lanceolate
petals, and four outstanding stamens of six. The silicles are
ovoid and non-cracking, with two long dagger-like wings and many
appendages. The wings are 4 to five cm long, 2 to 3.5 mm wide.
The florescence controls six to eight months. |
【Environmental
distribution】they
are grown at semi-fixed dunes and dunes in Shaanxi province,
Ningxia and Inner Mongolia.
【Planting
Environment】
Wild sand mustard asks for little of the farmland, but it
requires formation of the land as vegetables to gain harvest. We
need to select sand land for an area of 1 acre or so in high
ground and make it flat to avoid flooding the plants and then
plow the earth for 30 to 40 cm.
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