The fruit of hawksbill flower can be used as medicine or extracted from spices. Seed can be used for scenting scented tea, and its fruit, flowers and leaves can be used as medicine to extract spices. Because the fruit can be planted on the plant for 2-3 years, flowers and fruits coexist in the next year, just like "it runs in the family", so it is also called Zan. With the increasing demand for pure natural spices in the international market, the price of tortoise shell flower oil per ton is 4 million yuan, and the price of leaf oil per ton is 165438+ ten thousand yuan.

The fruit of the tortoise shell flower in the first year stays in the tree for the winter, and it will bloom on the same branch and bear new fruit in the second year. Two generations of fruits grow on the same tree, one after another, hence the name "tortoise shell". The new fruit of hawksbill flower is orange-red, and Chen Guo's skin color changes from yellow to green, so it is also called "Huiqing Orange".

The fruit also contains hesperidin, neohesperidin, naringin, orange pigment, citric acid, malic acid, salicylic acid and tannic acid. Seeds contain about 18% fatty oil and bitter component limonin. Leaves contain threonine and volatile oil.

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Tortoise shell flower taboo

1, pregnant women and children are not suitable for drinking.

2. People with weak constitution should not drink alcohol.

3. Not suitable for drinking with other scented teas.

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