Many people have heard of the golden cherry tree, especially after growing up in the countryside. When I was young, I often picked it as a snack to eat, especially after the frost, the golden cherry blossom is as sweet as honey, and many people especially like to eat this wild fruit. However, you must be careful when picking it, because the golden cherry tree has spikes all over its body, and if you pick it empty-handed, you can easily be stabbed by it. In particular, its spines are sharp and thin, and it is difficult to pull them out when they penetrate **.
In fact, in addition to the golden cherry seed, there is another wild fruit that is a little similar to it, and this wild fruit is the prickly pear. The difference is that the golden cherry seeds are golden yellow when ripe, while the prickly pear is yellow. Secondly, there is a slight difference in appearance, the golden cherry tree looks like a jar, while the prickly pear is oblate and spherical, and it is still easy to distinguish the difference between the two.
Prickly pear, because its fruit has thorns after ripening and resembles a tang pear, so it is called prickly pear. The scientific name of prickly pear is reeling (sao) silk flower, because it is in the time of boiling cocoon reeling silk when it blooms, so it is called reeling silk flower. As the name suggests, the boiling cocoon silk here is to give the silkworm cocoon silk, and there is a step called boiling cocoon, which is probably in the middle of May every year. In other words, the prickly pear blooms around May, from which it gets its name.
Prickly pear is also known as lump sugar.
2. Wenguang fruit, oil thorn fruit, send spring return, and ci pear are deciduous shrubs of the Rosaceae family and Rosaceae, and golden cherry seeds are sisters. This plant is about 1 meter tall and has many branches, with short spines throughout the plant. Its leaves are alternate, singularly pinnate compound leaves, sessile, elliptical or oblong, and serrate. It bears fruit from May to July, and its flowers are solitary at the tips of twigs, pale red or pink, and have a fragrant smell. Prickly pear is fruiting in autumn, from August to October, and bears flattened spherical fruit with small thorns. The fruit is green when unripe and yellow when ripe, with a hard achene inside and an oval shape.
It is recorded in the "Notes on the Eunuch Tour": "Prickly pear, shaped like a tang pear, has many thorns, and cannot be touched. Soaked in its juice, fried with honey, can be used as a paste, is not reduced to hawthorn pear also. Flowers in summer, real in autumn. The flower has a single-petal heavy platform, called "sending spring back", which describes the prickly pear we talked about in this article. At present, prickly pear is distributed in many provinces in China, mainly concentrated in Lianghu, Yunnan-Guichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu regions, and is commonly found on sunny slopes or shrubs.
Although prickly pear is a common wild fruit in rural areas, its value is very high, and it can be said that the whole body is a treasure. It has 4 major functions, and farmers should understand it. If you come across a ripe prickly pear in the mountains, be sure to pick it home for a lot of use.
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1. Prickly pear can be eaten as a fruit.
Prickly pear is edible after ripening, and the way to eat it is the same as that of golden cherry seeds, remove the outer layer of small thorns and internal seed hairs, and it can be eaten, and the taste is sweet. However, prickly pear, like golden cherry seeds, does not turn into dregs, can only be chewed, and needs to spit out the residue after absorbing water. Of course, in addition to being eaten directly, it can also be used to cook porridge, make tea, and so on.
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Second, prickly pear can be soaked in wine.
In addition to being eaten directly, prickly pear can also be used to make wine. Wash the fresh prickly pear and remove the small thorns and internal seed hairs, and then pour in the high white. According to the ratio of 1 to 1, 1 kg of prickly pear, add 1 kg of high white, seal it with a jar, and drink it after 3 months. Prickly pear wine is a good thing, and it can lower blood sugar, delay aging, and appetize and digest food when often drunk.
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3. Prickly pear can be used in medicine and has high medicinal value.
Prickly pear is used both medicine and food, it can not only be eaten fresh, can be soaked in wine, in fact, it is also commonly used in folk Chinese medicine. Its flowers, leaves, fruits, and seeds can be used as medicine, and have the functions of strengthening the stomach, eliminating appetite, nourishing, and stopping diarrhea. It is recorded in the "Collection of Guizhou Folk Prescriptions": "Prickly pear strengthens the stomach, eliminates food accumulation and fullness, and nourishes and strengthens it." In addition, it is also recorded in the "Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine Chronicle": "Prickly pear relieves heat and consumes food", which shows the high medicinal value of prickly pear.
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Fourth, prickly pear can be deeply processed and has high economic value.
The whole body of prickly pear is a treasure, and in addition to the above three major functions, it can also be deeply processed. For example, prickly pear juice, prickly pear drink, prickly pear jam, prickly pear preserved fruit, prickly pear wine, etc., are high economic value. The most important thing is that the nutritional value of prickly pear is also very high, and its vitamin content ranks among the top among many fruits.
According to modern scientific research, the vitamin content of prickly pear is 120 times that of citrus and 150 times that of vegetables, and it is a veritable "king of vitamin C". Do you understand the farmer friends? Don't miss out on this wild fruit in the wild.
Well, that's all for today's article. Do you know anything about prickly pear? Have you ever eaten prickly pear? Is there such a plant as a prickly pear in your hometown? If you have anything to say, you can leave a message in the comment area below and share your insights.
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