What is Cockscomb? Cockscomb Varieties

Cockscomb has feather-like flowers, flame-like corollas, and bright colors. Whether it is planted in flower beds or cut flowers, it is very pleasing. Known as the "bird among flowers", Cockscomb is not only gorgeous and lovely, but can also be made into various good medicines and delicious dishes, and has excellent health benefits!

Contents of this article

1. What is Cockscomb?

2. Cockscomb Varieties

3. The role of cockscomb

What is Cockscomb

Cockscomb is also known as cockscomb flower, old red, reed cockscomb, pen cockscomb, small-headed cockscomb, phoenix-tail cockscomb, big cock flower, cockscomb root, and red cockscomb. It is an annual herb that blooms in summer and autumn. The flowers are mostly red and cockscomb-shaped, hence the name. It is native to Africa, tropical America, and India. It likes plenty of sunshine, humidity and heat, and is not frost-resistant. It is not tolerant to barrenness and likes loose, fertile and well-drained soil. It is widely cultivated around the world and is a common garden plant.

Cockscomb species classification

1. Flower shape: The species with a particularly dense and spherical corolla is called "Kurume Celosia", which is very common in flower beds and cut flower cultivation.

2. Flower shape: The flowers are feather-like, the corolla is flame-like, and the colors are bright. They are very pleasing whether grown in flower beds or as cut flowers.

3. Flower shape: The corolla is cone-shaped like a fir tree, and the flower spikes are short and compact, which is particularly suitable for cut flowers.

The role of cockscomb

1. Benefits of physical fitness

Cockscomb, the "bird among flowers", is not only gorgeous and lovely, but can also be made into various good medicines and delicious dishes, and has excellent health benefits. Cockscomb has the magical benefits of treating hemorrhoids, diarrhea, metrorrhagia, and leucorrhea.

2. Supplement amino acids

Cockscomb is a good medicine. It contains many nutritional ingredients that are beneficial to the human body, such as protein, minerals, vitamins, natural coenzymes, dietary fiber, etc. According to observations and studies by Italian scientists, Cockscomb has many nutrients and high edible value, so people make it into various delicious dishes, which helps to supplement the amino acids needed by the human body. Regular consumption of Cockscomb can effectively treat the symptoms of blindness caused by lack of amino acids.

3. Benefits of cooling blood and stopping bleeding

It can cure intestinal wind, blood in stool, red blood, dysentery, metrorrhagia, leucorrhea, stranguria, etc. Cockscomb seedlings also have certain medicinal value, which can cure hemorrhoids, dysentery, vomiting blood, epistaxis, metrorrhagia, urticaria, etc. In addition, the petals and seeds of cockscomb can also provide nutritional balance for the human body.

4. Ornamental value

Cockscomb is a famous outdoor herbaceous flower in landscaping with bright colors. Its colors are bright and lively, and its ornamental value is extremely high. Tall varieties of cockscomb are often used for flower beds and flower borders. They can also be used as cut flowers and inserted into vases. They can keep for more than ten days. Of course, they can also be made into dried flowers and never wither. Dwarf cockscombs are mostly used for potted plants or planted on the edges of flower beds.

5. Purify the environment

Cockscomb is an excellent ornamental plant and is widely used around the world. It has an excellent effect of beautifying and purifying the environment and can be called a pollution-resistant popular ornamental flower. Cockscomb has excellent resistance to sulfur dioxide, hydrogen chloride, etc., and is very suitable for greening factories and mines. It can effectively purify the air in these places and is very beneficial to health.

6. Treatment, insecticide and other effects

Cockscomb is cool in nature and sweet and astringent in taste. According to various ancient and modern documents, it can be used to treat glaucoma, night blindness, eye opacity and other diseases, and it also has a killing effect on trichomonas in female private parts. Cockscomb has a variety of medicinal prescriptions, and the right medicine can be used when symptoms appear; and it also has many dietary treatments, which can nourish yin and moisten dryness, clear away heat and detoxify, benefit the spleen and stomach, clear lung heat, eliminate edema, promote urination, prevent cancer, reduce myocardial oxygen consumption, and relieve angina pectoris.