鸡冠花原产于非洲、美洲热带和印度,今世界各地广为栽培,为一年生草本植物。花期较长,可由夏、秋季直至霜降,又名“波罗奢花”。鸡冠花在我国为常用中药,始载于《嘉佑本草》。《本草纲目》载:“鸡冠处处有之,三月生苗,入夏高者五六尺,矮者才数寸。其叶青柔,颇似白苋菜而窄,稍有赤脉。其茎赤色,或圆或扁,有筋起。”因其花序红色、扁平似鸡冠而得名鸡冠花。 Cockscomb native to Africa, the Americas and tropical India, now widely cultivated around the world, for the annual herb. Flowering longer, by the summer, fall until the frost, also known as “Polo luxury.” Celosia is commonly used in our country, originally contained in “Jia You Materia Medica”. “Compendium of Materia Medica” contains: “cocks are everywhere, March seedlings, into the summer as high as five or six feet, short of the number of its leaves green soft, quite like amaranth narrow, slightly red veins. , Or round or flat, with tendons. ”Because of its inflorescence red, flat cockscomb named crest.