What are the characteristics of plantain?

Beautiful plantain, also known as red colorful plantain, red plantain, blossom, broad hearted ginger, bracteate flower, etc., belongs to the family of plantain plantain perennial persistent rooted herbaceous flowers. Plantain, 60 centimeters to 120 centimeters high, the leaves are large like banana, alternate, spreading like emerald sleeves, lanceolate, green or purple-red. Total too inflorescence irregularly born at the top of the stem, petals straight, with four petalized stamens. Flower colors are large red, pink-, orange-red, purple-red, cream, purple and red and yellow, red petals with golden edges. The flowering period lasts from May to July and blooms continuously. One of the most beautiful to the big red flower plantain, the name is "red focus", so it is called plantain.

In addition, the plantain's leaves have the function of absorbing chlorine and sulfur dioxide and other harmful gases, is a good environmental protection flowers. Its stems are also the raw material of man-made fiber and paper making, rhizome and flowers can be used as medicine, rhizome can cure acute jaundice hepatitis, flowers for hemostatic medicine.