Now that it has entered the early winter season, the wild fruits on the rural mountains are getting less and less, they are ripe and withered, some are eaten by birds, and one fruit is now its ripe picking period.
In Xiao Wu's hometown of Hunan Xinhua Mountain, all year round there are wild fruits to pick to eat, spring has March bubbles, wild strawberries, tea bubbles, etc., summer is more, ground fruit is the most representative wild fruit, autumn is August fried, in this cold winter, wild fruit is the golden cherry.
Golden cherry blossoms are everywhere in Hunan Xinhua Mountain, in the bushes, under the woods, under the roadside, on the mountain, because it has thorns all over its body, people dare not provoke it, see it is hidden far away, its leaves, stems, fruits have thorns.
However, its fruit golden cherry blossoms are deeply loved by people after ripening, especially the favor of men's friends, often picking its soaked wine, the price of fresh golden cherry blossoms in the countryside is as high as 20 yuan a pound, and when winter is idle, many people in the countryside go to the mountains to pick and sell.
After ripening, the golden cherry fruit is slightly sweet, and can be used for brewing wine, boiling sugar, and the sugar that comes out is very sweet.
This year's Weather in Hunan is a bit dry, the golden cherry on the mountain is not large, the result is relatively small, but in the season, the maturity of the golden cherry is still good, its sunny side has become red, such a fruit indicates that its maturity is very high, and the sugar content is relatively much.
The fruit of the golden cherry blossom, called the sugar jar in some places in the countryside, because the shape of its fruit looks like a sugar jar, it was once a natural snack for rural children, in the winter, go to the mountains to herd cattle, when cutting firewood, often go to pick the fruit of the golden cherry to eat, carefully pick the golden cherry fruit down, slowly remove the thorns outside it, and at the same time remove the flower tray, and then bite it in the mouth, or use your fingernails to break the fruit, cut out the seeds inside and throw it away, eat its flesh, In fact, after removing the seeds, the golden cherry blossoms do not have much meat, the outer thin layer of skin is just a thin layer, eat sweet, chew a few times in the mouth, suck its water, and then spit out the slag.
Its scientific name is golden cherry, is a rose family plant, the fruit is covered with fine and dense pointed thorns, the stem has barbs on the top, barbs are particularly easy to scrape clothes or hands, it is a kind of evergreen climbing shrub, growing up to five meters or so, golden cherry blossoms in April and May of each year, the flowers are white, big, very beautiful, rural girls often pick its flower belt on the head stinky, pick flowers also pay special attention, its flower handles are covered with thorns.
The ripening period of the golden cherry fruit is in the summer and autumn, in the summer it is cyan, and in the autumn and winter, the fruit matures, slowly changes from cyan to yellow, and then becomes red, and the fully ripe golden cherry has a rich sweet taste. When you see it, you can't help but want to pick it and eat it.
Now the rural people have no work to do, they will wear gloves, carry a bamboo basket, take a knife, put on water shoes, go to the mountain to pick this golden cherry fruit, pick back and then remove the spikes and flower trays on the fruit, take it to the town to sell, some shops in the town have a collection every year, 20 yuan a pound, a day to pick 10 pounds is not a problem, so you can earn 200 yuan a day, or a good income.
The value of golden cherry blossoms is mainly used to make wine and medicinal herbs, do friends have this kind of golden cherry blossoms in your hometown mountain? If there is, there is time to go to the mountains to pick some back to brew wine to drink, men drink well, if they do not brew wine, you can also take it to sell, earn an income, is also very good.
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