🌿 "Thai cones" from native wild plants to new cash crops.

🌿 "Thai cones" from native wild plants to new cash crops that have the potential to develop. 🇹🇭

Do you know? Chewy black candy in the center of the cold is refreshing like "Chewy?" There are actually many relatives who are "local Thai plants"! And they are waiting for development into sustainable use.

"Chew" is a word in Teochew Chinese that means grass candy, which in the past was influenced by the use of this plant from southern China, with the use of food, drink and herbs.

It has antioxidants, soluble fibers, has the properties to bind sugar and fat in the digestive system, relieve colic, abdominal pain, nausea, indigestion, fever, help skin healing, excretion, and help slow aging. It also prevents diabetes, heart disease, and stroke.

The botanical name of the type of chew that has been imported is: (Blume) A. J.Paton is classified in the basil family (Lamiaceae). There are also natural distribution zones in Thailand. The Phetchabun, Chaiyaphum, Trat and Stool provinces (studied from dried wood specimens).

But no real examples have ever been found in nature (Samran, personal contact). Foreign countries have been found in India, Myanma, China, South Taiwan, the Indochina region, the Malaysian peninsula, Indonesia, and the Philippines. According to a review study on tribal plant taxonomy, Dumort, by Dr. Samran, the best has reported the discovery of a genus of plants (P.Beauv.) in Thailand, which is about 23 species of local plants.

According to the report, there are as many as 12 species of endemic plants of Thailand, such as the Basil Cave of the Monks (Suddee, A. J.Paton & J.Parn.), Meerat Phulanga (Suddee, Puudjaa & Kiewbang), Mekong (Suddee, A. J.Paton & J.Pardee), Khao Lankha Rice (Suddee, Dee, Dee, Puudjaa & Kiewbang, Dee, Dee, Dee, Dee, Dee, Dee, Dee, Dee, and J, Dee, Dee, Dee, and J., Dee, Dee, Dee, Dee, Dee, Dee, Dee, Dee, Dee, Dee, Dee, and J, Dee, Dee, Dee, Dee, Dee, Dee, Dee, Dee, and J, Dee, Dee, Dee, Dee, Dee, Dee, Dee, Dee, Dee, Dee, Dee, Dee, Dee, Dee, Dee,

Most plants of the genus Chew have distribution zones in the northeast, north and southwest, often found along sandstone patio areas, or shallow rock basins.

Typical features are single-year or multi-year herbaceous plants, single or often branched stems near the stem, single leaves, arranged opposite, diminished bouquet-like inflorescences, out along the leaf axils or at the apex, with leaf-shaped ornamental leaves, bell-shaped calyx, enlarged as a result, apex split into 1-3 lobes.

The cone petals are joined together into 3-4 apical tubes split into 3-4 lobes. 4 male pollen. The ovaries are above the petal whorl. The glabrous. The apex of the female stamens is split into 2 lobes. The effect is sub-fruiting, hard shell, hard seed, small seed, with mucus when wet (Suddee et al., 2005; Suddee, 2010; Suddee et al., 2019).

The above observations have led researchers to note that there are many other varieties of Thai hues with similar biological characteristics, and that none of them have yet been reported to have potential as renewable crops, leading to encouraging farmers to grow, reproduce, and increase the quality of their produce into high-quality dry huff raw materials to reduce future imports of agricultural products from abroad.

As well as expanding the quality of jelly production or adding value to other economic products on both public and private dimensions, it is an important opportunity to study and research this group of Thailand's native wild plants.

Source: Bureau of Forest and Plant Species Conservation Research, National Park Service, Wildlife and Plant Species.

# Thai # Bureau of Forest Conservation and Plant Species Research # Herb # National Park Service # Chill