( Update: 05/07/2018 )
1 Morphological and Ecological
- A living tree many years draft. The body has longitudinal grooves. Leaves units, alternately, heart shaped, dark green, the ball leaves the face. Leaves with 5 main veins radiating from the petiole, stem with body hugging sheath. 6-13cm lamina length, width 5-8cm, with 5-7 ribbed stems from the leaf stem, leaf length 2.5cm. Flowers grow from the leaf axils, cotton flower clusters, the male flowers and other flower stem. The yellow cotton 1cm long, hairy, bracts round, smooth, egg-shaped gourd, chopped 3 stigmas tap Berries contain a particle.
- Where to live: Grows wild in the woods, where moist sand beach along the streams. There are common throughout the country. Also in China, Laos.
2 Use, harvesting, processing and distribution of nutrition:
- Uses: Make edible and medicinal. Leaf decoction drink disguised as bone pain, arthritis, rheumatism, sweating hands, feet, loose bowel.
- Harvesting and processing: Fresh leaves boiled with other vegetables, aromatic concentration. Used as a spice in cooking soup with jackfruit, banana, crabs, snails, turtles, buffalo meat fried with beef. Use package rolls baked, barbecue.
- Nutritional Ingredients: Water 86,5g, 4,3g protein, carbohydrates 5,4g, Fiber 2.5g, 1,3g Ash, Calcium 260mg, 980mg Phosphorus, Iron 0,4mg, 8,1mg carotene, Vitamin C 34mg .
3 Techniques to plant:
- Seed: from branch cuttings, stems bearing roots.
- Season: year round cultivation
- Soil: Leaves posing barefoot on more appropriate, but to thrive, the selected tree barefoot humus, nutritious and cool shade. Often planted in clusters that do not have beds. Suitable for models Agroforestry.
- Planting: Choose the guise of vigorous trees (green shadow, smooth, large leaf size), separating each branch took root or cut into lengths of 20 - 30 cm for cuttings. Cuttings just cut the trunk sections directly on beds prepared for planting, the soil cuttings each row (two thirds submerged body segment just cut), then lightly watering the plants enough moisture. 2 times daily watering the plants.
- Fertilization: Fertilizer for 1,000m2 nhuu follows:
+ Basal: 1.5 tons of manure, phosphate 35kg.
+ Dressing: Urea 10-12kg.
- Disease prevention and harvest the crops guise leaves little pests. In the case of high density planting, the leaves below the first leaf or burnt, but the product obtained from the leaves of the young leaves are often disguised, so the protection of the tree vegetation is relatively mild.
About 1 month after planting, the leaves can be harvested guise. Depending on the purpose of the cut material used for the body text (leaving 10-15cm for regeneration) or pick the leaves.