Button sized button melon

Mondo Fashionable Updated on 2024-02-01

Button melon. Cucurbitaceae, a grassy vine, also known as Newseed Melon, Wild Cucumber, Wild Gourd, Mouse Pull Winter Melon, Tianluo Net, Nutberry and so on. Nutnutnut melon is mainly distributed in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Guangdong, Fujian and other provinces and regions in China, and is also distributed in India, the Philippines, Japan and other provinces. Nutnut melons are scattered at an altitude of 500-1000 meters above sea level, such as forest edges, mountain slopes, stones, wastelands, shrubs, etc. The stems and branches of the nutnut melon are slender and multi-branched, and the leaves are membranous, broadly ovate or triangular-ovate; umbel-shaped inflorescence with five-petaled small white flowers; The fruit is smooth and globular or ovate, and the flowering and fruiting period is from April to November.

The fruit of the nut melon is only the size of a finger, or smaller than a button, much like a miniature version of a winter melon, or a miniature version of a gherkin, so it is known as the smallest melon in history. The rat pulls the winter melon itself to represent a very small meaning, that is, a small winter melon. The nutnut melon bears fruit while flowering, expands horizontally through a large number of branches, and interweaves with each other to form a snare, so it is also called Tianluo Net. Nutnutshell melon is a more troublesome plant in the farmland, harmful to crops, because it competes with crops for nutrients from the beginning of seedlings, mainly manifested as climbing and pulling, resulting in crop growth dwarf and sluggish, under the weight of its covering snare, crops will lodging and death due to lack of photosynthesis. If necessary, manual prevention strategies need to be adopted to prevent its harmfulness.

However, the whole herb of nut melon can be used medicinally, mainly with the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying, drenching, etc., and has curative effects on fever and convulsions, headache and sore throat, sores and ulcers, etc., but please follow the doctor's advice for details. More than a dozen compounds can be extracted and isolated from the whole herb of nutnut melon, which can provide active ingredients for some functional foods, cosmetics and medicines, so they are widely used in health care, food, daily chemical and medicine. The fruit of the nut melon is edible when ripe, and has a fresh and sweet taste. Newnut melon has small white flowers, and the ripe fruit is red, which has a certain ornamental value, and can sometimes be used as a vertical greening plant for ornamentation, and can also be dried and made into a specimen for decoration. In the future, there may be more R&D and application value for button melon.

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