Where does Cistanche grow? Where can Cistanche grow?

Cistanche deserticola is known as the "desert ginseng" and has extremely high medicinal value. The plant height is about 40-160 cm, with fleshy stems, numerous leaves, scaly, spirally arranged, light yellowish white in color, no petioles, spike inflorescence, linear lanceolate or ovate lanceolate in shape, bell-shaped calyx, and yellowish white or lavender in color.

Where does Cistanche grow?

Cistanche deserticola is a parasitic plant with very high medicinal value. It only grows in desert areas. In the wild, Cistanche deserticola must parasitize on the roots of plants such as Haloxylon ammodendron and Haloxylon persicum in order to grow. Therefore, if forest resources are destroyed, Cistanche deserticola will gradually become extinct.

The growth environment of Cistanche deserticola

Cistanche mainly grows in saline-alkali land, dry rivers, sandy land, Gobi and desert environments. It has strong cold and drought resistance and can grow in Gobi desert environments with extremely dry climate, strong sunshine, annual precipitation of less than 250 mm, drastic changes in temperature, strong winds and sand, poorly developed soil, high salt content and lack of organic matter.

Cistanche deserticola origin

Cistanche deserticola is mainly distributed in Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Gansu and Xinjiang in China. Among them, Alxa League and Bayannur City in Inner Mongolia are the two largest production areas of Cistanche deserticola . Of course, the quality of Cistanche deserticola here is also quite good.