In recent years, as sea buckthorn has become more and more common in the public eye, many people who have not seen sea buckthorn can't help but confuse sea buckthorn with sand dates.
In fact, sea buckthorn and sand dates are two different plants.
The reason why many people confuse them is that in addition to not having a detailed understanding of these two plants, it is more because the two plants have a lot of similarities.
I will explain in detail the sea buckthorn and dates.
Sea buckthorn and dates have the following three things in common:
1. Sea buckthorn and jujube belong to the family Huzi family.
2, the taste of sea buckthorn and dates are sour and slightly sweet.
3. Sea buckthorn and jujube have tenacious vitality and can grow in Xinjiang.
4, sea buckthorn and jujube are medicinal and food homologous food.
5. Sea buckthorn and jujube are excellent plants in Xinjiang that resist wind and sand and improve the environment.
In addition to the well-known plants such as poplar, red willow and shuttle, there are also sea buckthorn, sand dates and licorice, known as the "Three Treasures of the Desert".
They are proud of the wind and sand, full of vitality in the desert, spreading the vitality of life, not only maintaining the ecological balance, but also creating economic value for the local area.
The difference is that sea buckthorn is a tenacious plant, extremely adaptable to temperature, and can tolerate surface temperatures as low as -50 °C and up to 50 °C.
In addition to the Xinjiang region where sea buckthorn can grow, sea buckthorn is widely distributed in Tibet, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Yunnan and western Sichuan in China.
High altitude, large temperature difference between day and night, long light time, sandy soil, and original ecological environment are most suitable for the growth of sea buckthorn.
Compared with other regions, sea buckthorn produced in Altay, Xinjiang, is the best quality.
So, what is a sand date?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="67" > the growing environment of jujube:</h1>
Sand jujube is also known as "cinnamon willow", "silver willow", because its flowering fragrance is similar to jiangnan osmanthus flower, but also has tenacious vitality, so it has the reputation of "desert osmanthus flower".
Sand dates are deciduous shrubs or small trees, about 3–5 meters tall. Most of the natural sand jujube forests are concentrated in the Tarim River, Manas River and other river basins in Xinjiang.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="66" > the health of dates:</h1>
Although the jujube is not as tall as poplar, the life is not as good as poplar, and the material is not as good as pine cypress, it is full of treasure. The bark and flowers of the jujube tree are medicinal plants.
The fruit of sand jujube can not only be edible, but also used as raw materials for sugar, winemaking, and vinegar, as well as spleen and diarrhea, cough, and gastrointestinal digestion.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="65" > dates improve the ecological environment:</h1>
The jujube tree is not proud of its appearance, but it is the warrior who resists the wind the strongest.
It has tenacious survivability, drought resistance, wind and sand resistance, salt and alkali resistance, etc., and has been regarded as a pioneer tree species for farmland shelter forests and wind and sand fixation.
The root system of sand jujube is quite developed, and it is an excellent plant for sand fixation and dust protection. In addition, many nodules grow on the root system of jujube, among which nitrogen-fixing rhizobia can also improve soil fertility and improve soil.
Therefore, in some areas of Xinjiang, the desert Gobi and the surrounding areas of the courtyard can be seen everywhere.
After a brief acquaintance with the sand dates, let's get to know the sea buckthorn again.
Sea buckthorn, also known as "vinegar willow" and "sour thorn", is an ancient plant that has experienced more than 23,000 years of vicissitudes and is known as "plant living fossil".
Its leaves are lanceolate and have spines on the branches. The fruit is a thin-skinned berries that, when ripe, are golden and orange.]
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="69" > the growing environment of sea buckthorn:</h1>
Sea buckthorn often grows on sunny crests, valleys, dry riverbeds or hillsides, gravel or sandy soils or loess soils in temperate regions at an altitude of 800-3600 m. It is the only plant in the world that can grow in the "arsenic sandstone" terrain of the Earth's cancer.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="64" > the health of sea buckthorn:</h1>
Sea buckthorn is a kind of medicinal and food homologous food, from ancient times to the present, all ethnic groups in Our country, all eras in the practice of life have a full understanding of the medicinal properties and functions of sea buckthorn.
There is a clear basis for checking, starting from the Tang Dynasty in 13000, the "Four Medical Codex", "Yuewang Pharmacy", "Drinking and Eating Zhengjiao", "Mongolian Medicine Canon", "Compendium of Materia Medica", "Jingzhu Materia Medica", "Dictionary of Chinese Medicine", and "Chinese Materia Medica" have clearly recorded the medicinal properties and efficacy of sea buckthorn.
In April 2008, at the 4th International Sea Buckthorn Association held in Moscow, experts announced that sea buckthorn contains 428 kinds of nutrients and more than 190 kinds of bioactive substances that are beneficial to the human body.
Because sea buckthorn is a thin-skinned and juicy berries, it is not resistant to long-distance transportation and long-term storage. Fresh sea buckthorn fruit after selection, cleaning, removal of peel and seeds, relying on modern high-tech technology juice, high-speed centrifugal separation made of sea buckthorn pulp, retaining the fresh flavor and rich nutrition of sea buckthorn fruit, by more and more children, adolescents, workers, nursing mothers, middle-aged and elderly people love.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="56" > sea buckthorn improves ecology:</h1>
Sea buckthorn has the growth characteristics of drought resistance, hardiness and high temperature tolerance, and is widely adapted to loess, desert and salinized land in the north and northwest regions of China.
"An umbrella on the ground, a net on the ground", this is a phrase that people describe the sea buckthorn tree.
The root system of sea buckthorn is developed, and the solid soil area is nearly 10 square meters, which constitutes a crisscrossing underground "steel network", which can effectively prevent soil desertification.
At the same time, sea buckthorn is leafy and tree-like umbrellas, which can form a natural barrier in the bad weather of sandstorms, reduce wind speed and preserve sand.
In addition, sea buckthorn contains a large amount of acidic substances, which can neutralize the alkaline nature of the soil and improve the properties and fertility of the soil.
China is one of the countries with serious soil erosion and desertification in the world, and the most serious soil erosion and desertification and the most difficult to control are the northern and northwest regions, especially the Loess Plateau region and Xinjiang region.
With its unique biological and ecological characteristics, sea buckthorn adapts to a variety of barren lands, and has become the preferred tree species for restoring vegetation, improving ecology, controlling soil erosion, and preventing desertification of land.