Day lily (scientific name: day lily? Baroni; English name: Daylily), also known as day lily, lemon day lily, is a perennial herb in Liliaceae, with fleshy roots and spindle-shaped swelling in the middle and lower parts. Scapes vary in length, pedicels are short and there are many flowers. Perianth is light yellow, orange, black and purple. Capsule obtuse triangular oval, flowering and fruiting from May to September.

It is cultivated in all parts of China, mostly in the grasslands south of Qinling Mountains, Hunan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hubei, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi, Jilin, Guangdong and Inner Mongolia. Quxian County, Sichuan Province is known as "the hometown of yellow flowers in China".

Extended information: alkaloids hidden in day lily

Both the flowers and roots of day lily contain a toxic alkaloid, which is usually considered as colchicine. It can inhibit the process of cell mitosis and make chromosomes stay in the metaphase. Usually used in cytology and breeding. It also has anti-inflammatory effect and is a commonly used drug for treating gout and other diseases.

It is pointed out that the alkaloid in day lily is not colchicine. The author collected more than 50 samples of edible day lily from/kloc-0 in China for detection. Colchicine was not detected, but another alkaloid with similar structure to colchicine.

Undoubtedly, it can cause nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other gastrointestinal irritation symptoms, and there are not a few incidents of poisoning due to eating fresh day lily.

It is best to remove the stamens before eating fresh daylily, because the stamens contain the most toxins.

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