Lily.

Lily is a general called perennive herb. Flowers for the famous ball roots. Its underground stems are made up of many meaty flaps that meet each other and are edible. All belong to more than 80 species, 41 kinds of Chinese production.

lily is available for medicinal use in the Chinese Han Dynasty's Book of Shen Nong Herbs. The West has always regarded lily as a symbol of holiness. Lily flowers are painted on vases and frescoes of the ancient European Crete people. Later, lily carvings were also found on the dagger handle and on the top of temple columns. At the end of the 16th century British botanists sorted out the lily species of European origin. From the beginning of the 17th century to the 18th century, lily of American and Chinese origin was introduced to Europe. Especially at the beginning of the 20th century, China's Wang Lily and other transmission, in Europe and the United States set off a lily cultivation and breeding climax, has flourished. Lily cultivation in modern China is famous in Nanjing, Yixing and Lanzhou.Lily is used as a garden ornamental plant, tall people should be planted with shrubs, etc., in front of evergreen trees; Because its terrier is large, it is also suitable for cutting flowers, but need to cut out flower medicine, so as not to pollute clothes. The bulbs are rich in nutrients, and their dried, fresh and processed products are edible or medicined.