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Cistanche:

 the dry fleshy stem of the phosphorous-bearing leaves of cistanche deserticola. Cistanche deserticola is a parasitic plant, and its host is Haloxylon and Haloxylon Ammodendron. Suitable for growing in desert environment. The soil is medium-fine sand, neutral or alkaline, with high salinity. Many seeds, small and light, 1000-grain weight 0.086-0.091 g, long seed life. 

Habitat: 

Cistanche deserticola is mainly distributed in Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Ningxia and Gansu, depending on the distribution of parasitic plants. Mainly from Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia. 

Harvest: 

Spring and autumn can be harvested. But in 3-5 months to pick for the best, out-of-date is hollow. Spring Pickers, usually semi-buried in sand drying, commodity known as Sweet Big Yun, light Big Yun or Cistanche. Autumn harvest, due to more moisture, not easy to dry, must be put into the Salt Lake 1-3 years later, take out the sun-dry, known as Salt Dayun, salted dayun or cistanche. 

Variety:

1. Cistanche deserticola in Alxa: 

flat cylindrical, slightly curved, usually cut into 8-20 cm segments, 2-4.5 cm wide. The surface is dark brown, with fine scales and long, linear projections. The body weight quality waxy, has the elasticity may break, the section dark brown to the brown, the quality good some presents the black brown, presents the oil moistens. Cistanche deserticola in Alxa can be either soft or hard -- the soft is cistanche deserticola, which is high quality and picked in the fall. The hard ones are common cistanche deserticola, picked in spring and not oily.

2. Cistanche deserticola in Xinjiang:

 cylindrical or slightly flat, 4-25cm in length and 2.5-4.5 cm in diameter. The surface of gray-brown , large scale scars and sparse, prominent, hard hand-held top feel. Hard, not easy to break, yellow-brown section, some nearly wooden-like, sometimes hollow.