What is Ferula?

Ferula is a kind of Ferula in Umbelliferae. It is the resin of Ferula Sinkiangensis or Ferula Fukang in Umbelliferae. It can be harvested in late spring and early summer from full flowering stage to early fruit stage, but full flowering stage is the best. Cut obliquely downward from the upper part of the stem for several times, collect the oozing emulsion resin, and dry in the shade.

Ferula Ferula is a perennial herb with a height of 0.5- 1.5 m, and the whole plant has a strong onion and garlic flavor. The roots are spindle-shaped or conical, and the thick and withered leaf sheath fibers remain on the root neck. Stems are usually simple, sparse 2-5, stout; The outline of the blade is triangular, oval and three-pinnate.

The last leaf is oval in width, shallowly lobed or dentate in the upper part, with a descending base and a length of10 mm; Gray-green, with sparse hairs on the upper surface and dense hairs on the lower surface, withering early; The cauline leaves are gradually simplified and smaller, and the leaf sheath is ovate-lanceolate, grasslike and withered.

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Compound umbels are born at the top of stems and branches, with a diameter of 8- 12 cm and no total bracts; Radial inflorescences are 5-25, nearly equal in length, pilose, central inflorescence nearly sessile, lateral inflorescence 1-4, small, opposite or whorled on branches, sparsely solitary, often longer than central inflorescence, and thickened when plants mature; Umbellies have flowers 10-20, and the small involucral bracts are broadly lanceolate and deciduous; Calyx teeth are small;

Petals are yellow, oval, 2 mm long, tapering at the top, bending inward, dark along the midvein, slightly concave inward, and hairy outside; Style base oblate, conical, margin widened, wavy, style elongated, stigma capitate. Meristem is oval, with flat dorsal abdomen, length 10- 12 mm, width 5-6 mm, sparse hair and prominent fruit margin; There are 3-4 oil pipes with different sizes in each tank, and the combined oil pipe is 12- 14. The flowering period is April-May and the fruiting period is May-June.

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