1. chicory (scientific name: chicory) is a perennial herb with shrubs and small blue or lavender flowers. Originated in Europe, it now grows naturally in North America and other places and becomes a roadside species. Roasted and ground roots are widely used as coffee substitutes. They originated in the Mediterranean, but now they are also popular all over the world, especially in New Orleans, India and Southeast Asia in the southern United States. It is also the main material for making red-eye gravy.
2. Chicory is a perennial herb of Compositae. The roots are fleshy, short and thick. The stems are erect, angular, hollow and multi-branched. Leaves alternate, long oblanceolate, head-shaped, corolla ligulate, blue. This plant is cold-resistant and drought-tolerant, and likes to grow in sunny fields and hillsides. It is distributed at home and abroad. Chicory is a kind of medicinal and edible plant, and its leaves can be used to make lettuce, which has been introduced and cultivated in Sichuan (Chengdu) and Guangdong. Its roots contain inulin and aromatic substances, which can be used to extract coffee instead of coffee and promote the activities of human digestive organs. The aerial parts and roots of plants can be used as medicine. Chinese medicines are called chicory and chicory root respectively, which have the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, diuresis, detumescence and stomach strengthening. In addition, chicory can also be used as roughage or pasture.
3. Born in coastal wasteland, river, ditch or hillside.