Living habits
Brown bract trees are cold-resistant and barren-tolerant, with strong shade tolerance, and seedlings are more shade-tolerant. It grows well under broad-leaved trees, likes neutral, calcareous or slightly acidic soil with good drainage and moist fertility, and is tolerant to mild salinity. They can also withstand a certain degree of drought and moisture, and it is easy to rot their roots if they are too wet. The root system is shallow and prone to lodging, which is not suitable for net planting. Brown bract tree has slow growth, long life cycle and long service life. It takes two years for a brown-bract tree to grow seedlings, about six years after transplanting for the first time, flowering (producing brown bracts) 10 years or more, and its service life can reach 48 ~ 80 years.
Economic value of palm bract tree
Brown bud, also known as brown bamboo shoot, brown bud flower, brown corn and millet, is an unopened young inflorescence on the brown bud tree, which tastes sweet and bitter and has a good taste. It is a kind of pollution-free special rare vegetable with great development value. Palmae trees are easy to cultivate and manage, with low cost and good economic benefits. An adult palm bud tree can produce 4 ~ 5kg of palm buds a year, and the annual output value of a palm bud tree is 20 ~ 25 yuan. Generally, 120 plants can be planted per mu, and the output value per mu is 2400 ~ 3000 yuan. In addition, the brown bract tree can also be used as a landscaping tree species, and the brown skin can be used to make brown mats and brown beds, which is an economic tree species with economic value all over the body.
Yield and quality: the harvest time of brown bracts directly affects the yield and quality of brown bracts. Too early, the brown buds are tender, but the yield is low. It's too late, the brown buds turn green and the quality is poor. When harvesting, the best harvesting time is that the brown epidermis of palm trees is obviously swollen, and when the brown bracts do not grow, it is generally from late June to early February of the following year. If seeds need to be preserved, they should be harvested when the seeds turn black, usually in April to May.
Nutrition: Palm tree flower is a good fruit and vegetable, which is rich in nutrition and has the medicinal effects of diminishing inflammation, clearing fire and lowering blood pressure. You can eat it raw or cooked. Palm tree flowers are bitter and sweet. Physically, the sweet body is wide, fat, plump, and the bitter body is round and slender.
How to eat: stir-fry diced bacon, stew chicken, cook soup, and auxiliary materials such as ginger, onion, pepper and sauerkraut. Delicious color, crisp and refreshing.
A famous place to eat brown bread:
I. Tengchong, Yunnan
Tengchong is rich in brown buns; Tengchong people like to eat brown buns. Brown bag has even become synonymous with Tengchong, and Tengchong people's nickname is "Brown bag".
The brown bag is the bud of palm tree. This flower, which looks like a fish egg, can be seen in many places, but few people pay attention to it. However, in the border town of Tengchong, its ugly brown steamed stuffed bun not only becomes a very precious delicacy, but also contains strong nostalgia.
In Tengchong people's home cooking recipes, brown bag is the role of the master; On the basis of Tengchong people's grand banquet, brown buns are the trump card of "local characteristics". It's the first time for foreigners to taste brown buns. It's really mouth-watering to see the golden granular bracts with bright red shredded carrots, spicy pickles and tender meat slices. But the entrance is miserable. But after eating it a few times, you can appreciate its beauty: "Brown buns are delicious and sweet."
Brown rice in Tengchong, Yunnan, also known as millet, is an unopened flower ear growing on brown trees. It can be obtained by peeling off the outer brown skin from the tree in early spring.
There are two main ways to eat brown rice: frying and cooking.
The frying method is to wash and chop brown rice, and fry it with diced lean meat, shredded carrots and pickles. Its color is bright and its leaves are mellow and delicious.
The cooking method is to chop the washed brown rice, cook it in clear soup, and add dried pickles, pepper sauce, Jiang Mo, scallion and coriander. Bitter in acid, sweet in bitterness. It can also be cooked with Longjiang white fish to make brown fish wrapped in white soup. Its taste is really wonderful, and it has the effects of relieving exterior syndrome, dispelling cold, purging heat and dispelling summer heat. Eating it is the top grade of Tengchong cuisine.
Brown bags have strict geographical boundaries. Although it is also produced in the surrounding areas near Tengchong, its leaves are bitter and unpalatable. Only Tengchong brown bag is bitter and sweet, just right. There are two kinds of Tengchong brown buns: golden bamboo brown and bitter bamboo brown. Bitter bamboo brown is too bitter to eat, but its medicinal effect is much higher than that of golden bamboo brown. Patients with hypertension and people with strong liver fire often eat bamboo yellow, which can lower blood pressure and calm the liver.
Second, Ganzhou, Jiangxi
In Ganzhou, Jiangxi, the main places to eat brown buns are Du Yu, Ruijin, Ganxian, Xinfeng and Chongyi. It's a high-end delicacy, which is difficult for ordinary guests to eat. If someone gives you a plate of palm flower one day, don't think it's fish eggs! That's authentic green food, without any chemical fertilizer and pesticide pollution.
There are few kinds of palm trees, most of which grow in the wild, so most families in rural areas have several palm trees, and eating palm buns is a guest. The price of brown buns is similar to that of pork, which shows the popularity of brown buns. But the real reason that affects the price is that people eat too much and are too popular, but the scale of planting palm trees is very small and scattered. In many places, even palm trees can't be seen in the fields, that is, things are scarce and expensive.
It is also eaten in other places in Jiangxi, such as Yichun, Ji 'an, Pingxiang, etc., but because brown buns are not known to many people, the delicious brown buns have not been popularized.