White fruit with purple stripes is the Ginseng Fruit of Yunnan, and can be eaten directly after washing.

Ginseng fruit (Pepino Melon) original name for the melon eggplant, also known as longevity fruit, phoenix fruit, colorful fruit, native to South America, is a perennial dicotyledonous herbaceous plant of the family Solanaceae. When the fruit is ripe, the rind is golden yellow and resembles the human heart. Its flesh has a unique flavor, crisp and juicy, and is a popular fruit.

Morphological characteristics of ginseng fruit

Ginseng fruit is a perennial plant, the plant is 50-100cm tall, the stem is white pilose outside, softer, more branched, nearly round. Stipules are absent, leaves alternate, simple, leaves elliptic, base cuneate, apex sharp, entire, reticulate veins. Flowers bisexual, cymes, with 5-12 flowers, floret pedicels slender, 0.5-0.8 cm. flower duns smaller, about 1 cm in diameter, duns 5, light green, triangular.

The corolla is 5-lobed, blue-purple and white. Stamens 5, inserted at the base of the corolla and alternating with the lobes, anthers 2-locular, fissure dehiscent; pistil 1, the ovary consists of 2 carpels, superior, divided into multiple locules by the false septum, embryonic plants numerous, axile placentation. The fruit is a berry, heart-shaped, with purple stripes on it.