Banana taro is very common in rural areas. What does banana taro do?

Although Musa Taro contains the word "Musa", it has nothing to do with Musa, but is actually "Musa Taro". In the folk, it also has banana lotus root, ginger lotus root, ginger taro, sweet taro, pink taro, ginger onion and other nicknames. It is an economic plant with the same name of Canna genus of Cannaceae, which is mainly distributed in the use of aboveground stems in China. The aerial stem of banana taro is called "banana lotus root stem" in my hometown. Its use is the same as that of leaves, and it can be cut off as feed for pigs and cattle. However, because the banana lotus root stem is relatively thick, it should be divided into several sections with a sickle before cutting, which is convenient for animals to chew.

Canna taro grown in rural fields is not only used for pigs, but also used for medicine 1. Banana taro has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials and eliminating dampness. 2, starch, banana taro has high adhesion and good smoothness, and can be used to make starch. 3, bean jelly, banana taro is cool and can be made into bean jelly. Banana taro, also known as banana lotus root, likes high temperature and humidity, has strong drought resistance, wind resistance and cold resistance, and can resist short-term frost. Some of it can still grow slowly at the temperature of 10℃, and its root system is developed, which can absorb deep soil moisture and is very delicious. The method of making banana taro vermicelli is also very simple. After the banana taro is dug back and washed, it is completely ground, and then the ground residue is filtered out with clear water with a sieve, and all the residue is filtered out, and then the starch is allowed to precipitate for one or two days.

Even if there are seeds, you can see them in roadside green belts and parks. We call it canna here. I don't know if I changed my name. However, we don't have canna taro for pigs here But in the past few years, we usually choose 1 1 month as the production season of lotus root powder, because it is brittle in autumn and easy to dry in the sun. Wash it first, then break it with a machine to make starch, then steam it into a powder in a steamer and hang it on bamboo props. Moreover, banana taro is a perennial herb with extensive management. Once planted, it can be harvested for many years. Of course, the planted vegetable fields can survive the winter successfully without water, sunlight and tubers. Banana taro stems erect and stout, 3 meters high, with alternate leaves.