What is wood ginger cabbage

Mu Jiang Cai, Sichuan and Chongqing specialties - the dipping essential condiments of the living water douhua (river water douhua), its unique flavor and the tenderness of the douhua perfect combination, it is very tasty. In addition to the use of live water douhua, it is also used to season cold dishes such as Luzhou pea cold noodles, stir-fry vegetables such as fried young beans/fava beans, and eggplant in casserole and so on. Refined wood ginger oil, retaining the unique flavor of wood ginger seeds, can be deodorized to increase the aroma, a drop of aroma, suitable for hot pot, barbecue, bean flowers, cold dishes and so on.

Morphological features: slender herb, 10-50 cm tall. Stem erect from the base of the spire-shaped branches, branchlets into 45 ° open, white pilose. Leaves small, lanceolate, 0.3-2 cm long, sparsely up to 4 cm long, 0.2-0.4 cm wide, sparsely up to 1.3 cm wide, apex acuminate, base attenuate, margin serrate, leaf surface green or purplish red, puberulent, abaxial surface light green, pilose and yellowish transparent glandular dots, lateral veins ca. 4 pairs; petiole ca. 1-7 mm long. Petiole ca. 1-7 mm. Spikes terminal, ca. 1.2-4 cm, consisting of a verticillaster with many flowers, biased to one side; bracts suborbicular, ca. 4.5 mm long, ca. 4 mm wide, outside white pilose, apex aristate, margins ciliate, veins slightly purplish; calyx tubular, ca. 2.5 mm long; outside white pilose and glandular dots; calyx teeth 5, the first 2 longer, apex spiny awnlike, margin ciliate. Corolla purple, ca. 6 mm, outside white pilose and glandular dotted, corolla tube tapering upward from base; limb 2-lipped, apex of upper lip emarginate, margin densely purple nodding villous, lower lip 3-lobed, apex of middle lobe apiculate, margins of lateral lobes sparsely ciliate; stamens 4, exserted, anterior pair longer, anthers black-purple; styles exserted, apex 2-quadrangularly lobed; disk 4-lobed, anterior 1 inflated, longer than ovary. Ovary. Nutlets dark brown, oblong, ca. 1.2 mm. Fruiting period September-November.