Jiangnan water town, boat shake, water swing. The scene of the fisherwomen singing "Cai Ling Song" and busy picking Ling often evokes the memories of many southerners in their hometown.
Rhombus horn is an aquatic lettuce vegetable, one of the "Eight Immortals in Water". It is the fruit of the annual herbaceous plant Rhododendron.
There are many northerners, or young people in southern cities, who really don't know where the diamond horns grow. Some naively think it grows on a tree. Some think it grows in mud. Actually, neither.
Let's take a look at it.
Ling, native to the Temperate region of Europe and Asia, is only domesticated and cultivated in China and India. Southern China, especially the Pearl River Delta in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, is the most extensive.
The fruit of the diamond is called the diamond horn. There are wild Lingjia Ling. Wild small, domesticated large. There are no angles, one corner, two corners, three corners and four corners. The horns are spined.
Where does it grow at the bottom?
Diamond is grown in the water, the diamond leaves float densely in the water, take the whole diamond plant in the water upside down to see the diamond horn! [Teeth] [Tooth] Rhombus leaves are like diamonds, and their fruits are called diamond horns. Ripe after autumn, the fruit hardens, if not picked in time, often falls off in the water, the next year germinates and grows.
The vine has green leaves, purple stems, and white, yellow, and reddish flowers. It grows in March and grows long, flowers in May and June, and matures around August.
The diamond horn is called "peanuts falling in the water". High nutritional value. Rich in protein, glucose, unsaturated fatty acids, multivitamins, trace elements. The skin is crisp and the flesh is beautiful, and the young stems can also be used as vegetables. Diuretic through the milk thirst quenching alcohol poison supplement five viscera in addition to hundreds of diseases can be light body (weight loss bodybuilding), but also has a certain anti-cancer effect.
However, the diamond horn is delicious and should not be excessive. It is also not advisable to cook with pork, be careful of liver pain, eat with honey, will have indigestion, fresh just picked is fresh, but can not be eaten raw, be careful of ginger slices running into your stomach ah!