Gansu is a shaolin province with a wide range of wild plants.The main resources are divided into 7 categories: there are more than 100 oil plants, such as papaya, xanthium, artemisia sphaerocephala, cypress, wild walnut, oil tung, etc.There are about 100 kinds of fiber and papermaking raw plants, such as apocachlorum splendens, lachnaum splendens, balsam splendens, and others.There are more than 20 kinds of starch and brewing plants, such as acorn, date, fern root, konjac, sand rice, earth cocos, etc.There are more than 20 kinds of wild chemical raw materials and cork, such as cork oak, gallnut, locust, etc.More than 100 kinds of wild fruits, such as Chinese kiwi fruit, cherry, mountain grape, loquat, chestnut, seabuckthorn, etc.There are 951 kinds of wild medicinal materials, including rhubarb, angelica, licorice, red astragalus, suoyang, desertliving cistanches, gastrodia elata, etc.There are more than 10 kinds of special edible plants, among which the rare wild plants are hairdressing, ferns, agaric, potentilla ferns, daylily, ground soft, tripe, mushroom, and deerhorn.Gansu is one of the main producing areas of medicinal materials in China, with more than 9,500 varieties, ranking the second place in China.There are 450 kinds of medicinal herbs, such as angelica, rhubarb, dangshen, licorice, red astragalus, astragalus, winter cordyceps sinensis, etc.
