This is a strange fruit with a refreshing taste. The longan-sized fruit is wrapped in a cicada-thin "coat", which looks like a delicate little lantern and a shy girl hiding in a boudoir. Northerners call it "foreign girl", "sweet lady" and "sweet horse". This kind of fruit was originally a rare vegetable of solanaceous fruit, and its scientific name was sour pulp.
Physalis alkekengi is a kind of nutritious fruit and vegetable. It can be eaten raw, stained with sugar or vinegar, or used as fruit pulp. This kind of fruit is rich in fragrance and delicious.
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Physalis alkekengi is widely planted in the northeast of China. Because of its golden color, it is called this elegant name. At the same time, the north and the south also gave them many names. In the north, there are two kinds of common fruits: wild fruit and planted fruit. Wild immature fruit, the coat wrapped by the fruit is mostly green, and it is red when it is ripe, so it is called "girl". The fruit planted is immature, and the fruit is wrapped in a coat. When it is mature, it is mostly green and yellow, so it is called "home girl". The South is called "shy fruit" and "smiling fruit".
Physalis alkekengi is a perennial herb of Physalis belonging to Solanaceae, which is usually cultivated as an annual plant. Strong adaptability, cold and heat resistance, like cool and humid climate. Like sunshine. No matter what kind of soil, especially Physalis alkekengi originated in Asia, it can grow normally in the temperature range of 3℃-42℃. Distributed in Eurasia; I was born in Gansu, Shaanxi, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan.
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