Introduction: What is the difference between raspberry, fluffy, snakeberry, and sorghum bubble? Why can't snakeberries be eaten?
Since entering May, many wild fruits in the mountains have also matured. When it comes to wild fruits in the mountains, what do you think of first?
In fact, during May, the wild fruit that most makes the rural children reminisce is estimated to be similar to the strawberry fluff, which is also called "March bubble" and "planting bubble" in the folk, because most of them are ripe in the southern planting season.
Do you know the difference between fluffy and raspberries, sorghum bubbles, and snakeberries? Why do they all look so similar that the snakeberry alone cannot be eaten? Let's take a look at it together, and by the way, reminisce about childhood!
The difference between raspberries, puffs, snakeberries, and sorghum bubbles
It is estimated that many people see these four wild fruits, and they are also stupid and indistinguishable. In particular, raspberries and fluffy are too similar.
Raspberry, in folklore, it is often called raspberry, hanging hook, raspberry, raspberry and squid. It is a woody plant of the genus Rosaceae. This is also a kind of plant distributed in the north and south of the mainland, in the past, the rural baby loved to go to the mountains to pick it in the summer to eat, the taste is not lost at all to the current strawberry, sweet and sour to eat is very addictive.
But raspberry is delicious but not easy to pick, because its plants grow taller, and the stems and branches have hook-like spines, which are easy to be scratched by thorns when picking. The flowering of this plant is generally in May and June, and the fruiting period is in August and September.
Let's take a look at the very similar to the raspberry (lěi), the reason why they look so similar is because the pistachio is also a rose family, the genus of hanging hooks, but it is a shrub plant, in fact, from this point can also see the difference between the two.
Pengzhi is a scientific name, and in the folk mostly called it March bubble, cut field grass, Lingzhi, Yin Mushroom, Seedling Bubble, etc., because its flowering period is in March and April of each year, the fruit period is in May, this time the south is the planting season.
Compared to raspberries, the puffy is much larger, and its interior is hollow. I remember when I was a child, I loved to pick this wild fruit to eat, but adults would entertain it, and be sure to soak it in salt water for a while, so that the bugs inside would crawl out.
Although this fruit is large, the larger it is, the easier it is to have ants or small bugs inside. It may have a lot to do with their short plants, large fruits, and especially the hollowness inside.
Then there's the sorghum bubble, which is also a plant of the genus Rosaceae, the genus Of the Hanging Hook, but it belongs to the semi-deciduous vine-like shrub. Compared with raspberries and puffs, the distinction between sorghum bubbles is much simpler, first of all, its plants have obvious differences, and the flowering period is much later, generally flowering in July and August, and the fruit often matures after late autumn.
Secondly, the fruit of the sorghum bubble is more delicate, it is a bit like a grape, the fruit is a bunch of bunches, and there are a small number of stone fruits gathered, after ripening, it is red, and it tastes sour and sweet. It can be eaten fresh, jam or sake, and it is also commonly used in the folk to make wine.
Although the size of the sorghum bubble is the smallest of these wild fruits, it is a bunch of bunches, and once picked, it is a large bunch, so it is very enjoyable to eat.
Finally, there is the snakeberry, which is also the only one of several wild fruits without thorns. Snakeberry is a snakeberry plant in the rosaceae family, and it is not surprising that it is so different from the previous ones that are only in the same family but different genera.
I believe that many people know it and know it. When we were young, our parents told us that snakeberries are the fruit of a poisonous snake that has crawled and spit on, and it cannot be eaten.
It is very different from the previous wild fruits, both plants and fruits, especially the fruits are very different. The fruit of the snakeberry is like a round red ball of flesh, with small red protrusions growing on the surface, shaped like a spit, and the inside is white.
Why can't snakeberries be eaten?
Snakeberry is a poisonous fruit, something that many people know since childhood. It is also because parents have told snakeberries to be poisonous since childhood, and snakeberries cannot be eaten, so many people, even when they grow up, still avoid this wild fruit, and will tell their children not to pick and eat.
Is this wild fruit of snakeberries really poisonous? Why can't snakeberries be eaten?
As for whether snakeberries are poisonous, this is certain. It's just that it is not as poisonous as the folk often say, but a small poisonous wild fruit, and its toxicity can even be negligible.
Li Shizhen, who loves more really, tried it herself after hearing the legend of the poisonous snakeberry in the folk. It found that the poison of snakeberries was not as terrible as rumored, and it was recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It is said that food can kill people, but it is not, stop cold salivating." It means that although the poison of snakeberries is undead, it will have a feeling of nausea and vomiting after eating.
In addition to the reason that snakeberries have small poisons, it is not recommended to eat wild fruits such as snakeberries everywhere, and another reason is caused by its growing environment. The first few wild fruits are not grown close to the ground, but the snakeberry is a plant that grows creeping on the ground, and the fruit is also close to the ground.
And this plant likes to grow in a humid environment, especially in some dark and damp places, and it will grow in pieces. In addition, when the fruit is ripe, it is the time when the snake comes out of hibernation. They also like to move around in some dark and damp places.
Therefore, some snakes will appear in the place where snakeberries grow, and the ancients believed that people's snakeberries must have been crawled by snakes, so that it is easy to be bitten by snakes, after all, there were many poisonous snakes in the mountains before.
In particular, snakeberries do look a little different, the color is unusually bright, and it looks a little scary.
Even if it has not been crawled by snakes, the fruits grown in such an environment are not very hygienic, there may be various insects and mosquitoes crawling on it, whether it has been exposed to too much sunlight, it may be like cats and dogs, or rural cattle and sheep children next to the and pee, so for health is not recommended to eat, from these points of view, snake berries can not eat is not wronged.
Conclusion
I don't know if you have ever eaten snake berries, when I was a child, I stole this wild fruit, and its taste is far worse than the previous fruits.
Although the fruit is large and full of moisture, it has no taste, neither sweet nor sour, and it is tasteless to eat. Coupled with the bulge on the outside, it is even more unpleasant, in short, it is a very bad experience.
However, although snakeberries are not delicious, they are not small in value. The whole plant can be medicated, and has the effect of clearing heat, detoxifying, activating blood and dissipating guilt, astringent and hemostatic.
In particular, it is worth mentioning that it also has an effect on venomous snake bites, as long as it is mashed and applied to the affected area. It seems that the ancients said that "wherever poisonous snakes appear, there will be antidotes", which is reasonable. Of course, several other wild fruits also have high medicinal value.
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