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01 Unnamed plant When visiting mines, most of the plants growing on the mountains that I do not know the name, the plant in the following image is one of them. It can grow near the open pit; most of them that I saw grown out from the rubble, which is really interesting. I desire to know what kind of plant is it. So, I search this image on the Internet, found nothing. Then looking for it in Panzhihua plants library, I found nothing. I started to ask people around me, finally got some information. Laoman (one of my friends) told me that some people call it Camel grass. This plant is very drought tolerant, just as I see. It has a sour taste (he must have tasted it but without poisoning). However, he does not know the name either. I haven’t given up yet, and then I asked Nine, who used to live in the Lanjian community. He told me that he had no idea the name of this plant. But he said that when he lived in a rural area, people usually used it to feed chicken. It is indeed non-toxic! In fact, I did get several names of it, like Sorrel, Milk plasma grass. However, using these names, I always searched for another sort of plants. But, why the name is so important for us?
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