A few years ago, when flipping through a blog, I saw that the fruit of a plant in the subsperm of the Southeast Asian rainforest has a similar effect to the synsepalum dulcificum, which can deceive people's sense of taste, so that people can eat their fruit and then eat sour things to feel sweet. Only these two plants are known to the world to have this effect, and to Shusheng's surprise, this plant is actually from the stone garlic family!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="2" what kind of strange things do > the family of lycopheae have? </h1>
A simple list of a few horticultural plants has a concept: daffodil, junzi orchid, onion orchid, vermilion, manjushri orchid, suddenly laughing, manju shahua, etc., usually fairy and cute, but because of the poison and people are respected.
But don't be disappointed, there are some more grounded ones in this family: Curculigo spp. There are more than 20 species in the world, mainly distributed in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world, and there are about 7 species in China. Some species of the genus Xianmao have certain edible and medicinal value, and there are many stories about Xianmao.
For example, the legendary Antarctic Immortal was reincarnated as Pengzu, often eating the roots of Xianmao, and lived for more than 800 years. There is also a legend that the Brahmin monks in India love to eat the root of the fairy grass, serve lightly for a long time, and have great energy, so the root of the fairy grass is also called Brahman ginseng. In the "Sea Medicine Materia Medica" written by Li Xun of the Tang Dynasty, Xianmao is described as follows: "The leaves are like thatch, rhizomes, long-term service and refining, replenishing the essence, adding spirit, so it is called Xianmao". This may be the origin of the name Xianmao.
In the end, how effective xianmao is, not to mention, there is no need to superstitiously believe these legends, at least it shows that xianmao still has good people who will not harm people, and xianmiguo is the cousin of xianmao.
In fact, fairy fruit is very common in the southeast Asian rainforest, often mixed in the roadside grass pile, generally after seeing it, it is simply pat the flowers, pat the leaves on the hurry, has not been curious about what its fruit looks like, until it knows that its fruit has such a magical ability, suddenly feel ashamed: with their own likes and dislikes to rate each plant, like to look at a few more, dislike it will rush by.
It is a miracle that every plant can cross the trials of the galaxy of years and be vividly displayed in front of us, and we miss it again and again, and we still don't know it. I believe that everything we experience in this life is the gift of time, if there is really reincarnation, it may also be that a beautiful girl has been begging for 500 years in front of the Buddha, and finally can turn into a grass to meet you, and under all kinds of strange circumstances, you finally came to the side of this grass, and as a result, you gorgeously sprinkled urine and left.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="9" > hunt</h1>
Understand its special, students in the inspection of the time always pay more attention, see a similar form of the run to the ground to turn over its fruit order, see if there is any fruit, unfortunately, its result rate is very low, it is difficult to see a fruit The last check is not this species, there is no effect, which is embarrassing.
After about a year of hunting, I finally encountered it, its inflorescence is a little dirty, some of the top are still blooming yellow flowers, under the flowers is a black clump, white fusiform fruit is mainly hidden at the bottom, need to be plucked out one by one, a clump of fruit inflorescence also has few fruits, but also very small, the larger one is only about two centimeters long.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="12" > experience</h1>
The mysterious fruit has long been eaten, appreciate its magic, this time found another, the world has eaten these two fruits at the same time, I am afraid that there are not many people, in order to achieve a better experience and more accurate records, they quickly sealed it with a plastic bag and flew home.
Go back to wash it and put it under the light to observe carefully, its peel is relatively smooth, not as much hair as other fairy grass brothers, through the white skin can see the black seeds that faintly reveal inside, it seems that the seeds are quite large, and it is also a series of fruits that taste and eat. Carefully cut the fruit with a knife, and sure enough, the expanded part was stuffed with black seeds, and with a very small spoon gently dug out the flesh, placed in the tongue and tasted slowly, so that the flesh touched every taste bud on the tongue as much as possible, because I wanted to take pictures of the seeds, I spit out the seeds one by one.
Its taste is not as sour and sweet as the mysterious fruit after the entrance, the taste is relatively light, like the white flesh of the dragon fruit, the sweetness is very low, because the flesh is less, it is quite difficult to eat, and the fruit slices have been prepared before eating, there are lemons, apples, watermelons and so on. Nibble on these fruits before eating the fairy fruit, and then do a controlled trial later.
Sure enough, after eating it, it had an effect, the lemon became less sour, the watermelon and apple tasted fresher, the world began to fall into a sweet feeling, the effect was not as strong as the mysterious fruit, the duration was not long enough, the effect disappeared in about half an hour, it may be that the pulp is relatively small, the effect is not so strong. Before the feeling disappeared, I drank a cup of coffee and took a sip of red wine, and I would obviously feel that I could not distinguish the layering.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="17" > independent</h1>
Some scholars advocate dividing it into the genus Molineria spp, while others advocate the direct independence of the genus and the self-reliance of the portal as the "genus" of the family. Foodies know that there is such a thing, the return and going between plant families, the division and combination are all plant taxonomists' business, we only need to look for the identification characteristics of this species, what it looks like, know where to find, how to eat, delicious or not. (This article is from Southeast Asian Fruit Hunters)