Today, I will share with you the following four common wild fruits in rural areas!
1. Mulberry
Wild mulberries, common wild fruits in rural areas, begin to mature in May every year, and dark red ones are the best. There used to be many mulberry trees in the countryside. Whenever mulberries are ripe, children will go to mulberry trees to pick mulberries. Their mouths are full of black and purple, and even their teeth have changed color. Mulberry tastes sweet and sour and is the best snack for children at that time. In fact, mulberry is rich in nutrition, and can be used as medicine after drying. It is a rare food with the same origin of medicine and food.
2. Myrtle fruit (hawthorn)
Myrtle fruit is an edible wild fruit, which is egg-shaped, pot-shaped, with a length of 1.5-2 cm and a width of 1- 1.5 cm, and is purple-black when it is ripe. The fruit of Myrtle is green first, then yellow, yellow, red and purple. The fruit is full, like a miniature wine glass. It has a pit inside, much like a bug, and there are many seeds outside the pit. It tastes extremely sweet. When the fruit is ripe and purple-red, it is best to eat, quench your thirst, have a sweet aftertaste, and dye your tongue and teeth purple-black. Note that this kind of wild fruit is half-ripe. If you eat too much, you must drink a bowl of salt water, otherwise it will be difficult to defecate the next day.
Step 3: Diguo
Don't I know anyone about this kind of wild fruit? This kind of wild fruit is called Diguo, also known as pomegranate, mountain dragon and creeping earthworm. Likes to grow in wasteland, grassy slopes or crevices, and can be used as medicinal plants. Distributed in Guangxi, Yunnan, Hunan and Hubei.
Sweet potato is a creeping woody vine with slender stems and swollen roots. Young shoots are even erect, up to 30-40 cm high, Ye Jian papery, obovate elliptic, 2-8 cm long and 1.5-4 cm wide, with sharp apex, round to shallow heart-shaped base, wavy edges, sparse serrations, short lateral veins at the base, 3-4 pairs of lateral veins, short bristles on the surface and fine hairs along the veins on the back; Petiole length 1-2 cm, petiole with young branches 6 cm in diameter. Stipules lanceolate, ca. 5 mm, pilose.
4. Hovenia dulcis
Hovenia dulcis Thunb, berrylike drupe nearly spherical, 5-6.5 mm in diameter, glabrous, yellow-brown or brown when mature. Hovenia dulcis Thunb. Fruit has high utilization value, and its full fruit stalk is juicy and nutritious. According to the test, Hovenia dulcis Thunb contains a variety of nutritional elements and components. The content of glucose is as high as 45% per 100g fruit, and the total amino acid content is 2.4 1%. The fresh weight of 100g contains 23 mg of vitamin C, 3.47 mg of iron, 0.8 mg of phosphorus, 0 0. 12 mg of zinc, 0.74 mg of copper and 0.2 mg of manganese. Hovenia dulcis Thunb fruit can be eaten raw, sobered up, boiled with fructose and whipped cream, made into drinks, made into wine, made into vinegar, made into preserved fruit and so on.
In addition to the above, there are many delicious foods that we have never heard of in the countryside. The wild fruits picked on the mountain have a natural taste without any additives. The delicious food formed by nature, if you have the opportunity to pick wild fruits in the countryside, you will have a full sense of accomplishment. The fruit of self-reliance is especially sweet.