Chung, also known as one thousand lotus land lotus land lotus

　　
　　
　　
　　
　　
　　
Chung, also known as one thousand lotus land lotus land lotus, lotus Mother Earth, to Chung Lin, like the legs of Musa Banana is a perennial herb, native to China's Yunnan Province, Sichuan Province, there are distribution systems our specialty flowers. To Bay lotus profusion of small plant, usually below 1 meter high. Ground in part by the leaf sheath layers overlap to form a spiral arrangement, such as rod-shaped tree, called the false stem. Leaves dark green, oblong, top acute, shape of banana leaf, about 50 cm wide and up to 20 cm. Long flowering, up to 250 days, six bracts is a, or axillary, glittering, shaped like petals, the layers from the bottom up and gradually started to maintain a long time does not wither, and the bright beautiful and shiny, just as a lotus in full bloom, and fragrance of real flowers, soft, petite, green and yellow, concealed inside the bracts, bracts start to show up only; but also because of the low and thick false stem, the first after flowering, leaves, flowering in early spring, when suddenly from the Bay to take out underground, quietly blooming, people wonder, therefore, to Bay lotus the title. Flowers and more to the United States, fragrance, color to win, and to Chung lotus with odd overwhelming masses, it is not only huge wreath, Chi Mei, there are even more lovely place: when it grows strong, in the false stem axil also carve out a large number of small flowers, the formation of "Zhongxingpengyue" spectacle.
To Bay lotus cultivation in Xishuangbanna was particularly high, because all the people in the area of ​​the Dai religion Theravada Theravada Buddhism, where almost every village has a Buddhist temple, Buddhist temple to Bay as the lotus is the "five tree six flowers" (the Buddhist provisions temple trees must be planted five or six flowers.) one, so widely planted. Dai in a rich and splendid literary works, to Bay lotus as the embodiment of goodness and punishing evil symbol, and more have appeared. Origin in the lotus land Chung, civil use of its stem juice solution drunk and Aconitum poisoning, leave the stem as pig feed. Take medicine, there is convergence of bleeding effect, can cure vaginal discharge, red collapse, the large intestine in blood and so on.