News on May 9, according to @ CCTV website (Video ) Recently, Crystal orchid, a "national near dangerous rare plant", was found in Daweishan National Nature Reserve in Yunnan Province In the humid mountain forest, the crystal orchid with a plant height of more than 10 cm emerges from the dead leaves. The flower body is white, and the stem is upright, clear and transparent. According to reports, crystal orchid has no chlorophyll, can not carry out photosynthesis, and can only symbiosis with fungi in rotten leaves
Baidu Encyclopedia data show that crystal orchid is a perennial herb saprophytic plant of Pyrola family. The stem is upright, single, unbranched, the whole plant has no chlorophyll, white, fleshy, and turns black and brown after drying.
It is distributed in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Zhejiang, Anhui, Taiwan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Tibet and other provinces and regions; It is also distributed in Russia, Japan, India, Southeast Asia and North America. Born under the mountain forest at an altitude of 800-3850 meters.
Crystal orchid can be used as an ornamental flower because of its fleshy plant, white color and crystal clear The root or whole grass is used as medicine, with sweet taste and flat nature; It has the effect of tonifying deficiency and relieving cough. It is mainly used to treat lung deficiency cough
It is worth mentioning that the unique habit and magical shape of crystal orchid make it often appear as "ghost flower" in traditional Chinese martial arts novels and legends.
In this regard, many netizens joked: "whose Bluetooth headset grew out" and "it's really like a Bluetooth headset".
