Hamcho(Glasswort) is a herbaceous plant that grow in tideland of west coast area of the Korea. Nomenclature is "Salicornia herbacea L." it is, and is known as farsighted plant that do not evolve until present as plant Paleozoic era 500 million years ago botanically.
Glasswort (April)
Glasswort (May)
Glasswort is salt resistibility plant that grow in salty soil that fixed salt is. Is burry to Stem, and branch divides 1 ~ 2 times, and height grows by 10 ~ 30 §¯.There are few distinctions of leaf and branch, and joint is thick and is plump. Bud of Glasswort grows deep green for the site summer at spring (March ~ June).
In August, flower blooms.
Glasswort (June)
Glasswort (July)
If glasswort is seen to leaf of branch or not a light green dyed clothes very small flower grow and form seed soon. Glasswort of deep green shade of color changes red gradually and whole branch surrounds as seed in October. Floral envelope is fleshiness in marsupial. After flower blooms, edge grows up and protects fruit.
Glasswort (August)
Glasswort (September)
Glasswort of this time changes color red and have seed on leaf whole of all the joints. Is flat and spread by wind and does budding next year if shed small seeds of shape that angles is to land. Hamcho(Glasswort) is sample of salt resistibility halophilous plant that grow spontaneously on Korean shore.
Glasswort (October)
Glasswort (November)
Features of Glasswort
Glasswort is storing away various useful ingredients including salt that melt within seawater or tideland by coastal plant of salt resistibility.
Glasswort is plant that is the heaviest plant in earth and is having clean salts of a lot of amount.
Glasswort (September)
Glasswort that grow in a saltpan(October)
Seawater has minerals and microelement of tens kinds, toxin, enzyme. Enzyme of 1 gram (one of million minutes) does action (self-purification) that dissolve organic matter of seawater inside in seawater 1 ton Dead body of a lot of planktons and fishes makes in seawater but enzyme disjoints these. Finally, enzyme becomes done nutrition and food of plankton as grows seaweeds and is always kept seawater clearly.
But, can not eat directly even if speak that is clean seawater however. It is because the seawater contains small amount of harmful toxic metals, even though many useful nutrients are also included. It is well known common sense and tradition from old times that removing bittern, when drying seawater to obtain natural salt, is good to heath.
Glasswort that grow in waterway of a saltpan(July)
Smiling glasswort as absorb seawater(August)
Salt contained in slander glasswort (Hamcho in Korean) is special salt in a plant. It is abundant of mineral, cleaner than natural as well as processed salt, and has good taste as well.
Sodium in slander glasswort is not bitterish as one in natural salt, and leaves clean salty taste behind
The taste also varies by season; in spring it is lightly salty, in summer a little bit bitterish, and it is more or less hot in autumn.
In addition, hamcho (slander glasswort) is varies in size, salinity, ingredient and even shape, according to the soil of the habitat, i.e. whether it is saltpan, reclaimed land, mud flats or others.
