Pepino Melon, formerly known as melon eggplant, also known as longevity fruit, Fengguo and Yanguo, is a dicotyledonous perennial herb of Solanaceae, which is native to South America. When the fruit is ripe, the peel is golden yellow and looks like a human heart. Its pulp is unique in taste, crisp and juicy, not sour or astringent, and it is a popular fruit like sour horn. It has nothing to do with ginseng.

Ginseng fruit is an annual herb, belonging to Solanaceae, which is native to the northern foot of the Andes in South America. The height of ginseng fruit plant is about 1 m, with vigorous branches and easy modeling, and each plant can bear 5~20 fruits. The fruit is oval, the background color is jade white when it is ripe, and it has a slight purple pattern, and it can be hung on the branches for 5~6 months without falling off. It can be used as a bonsai for hanging fruit, with ornamental value, high nutritional value of ginseng fruit, health care function, raw food and cooking.

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In the 24th session of Wu Cheng'en The Journey to the West in the Ming Dynasty, there was a ginseng fruit in Zhenyuanzi's view of Wanshou Mountain and Wuzhuang. This fruit is also known as grass returning to Dan. "It takes three thousand years to blossom and three thousand years to get a result, and it takes another thousand years to get ripe, and it takes ten thousand years to eat it. Like this ten thousand years, only 30 fruits have been produced. The appearance of the fruits is similar to that of children under the age of three dynasties, with all limbs and five senses.

Ginseng fruit tree is the spiritual root of the earth, and its fruit is rare. If people have a chance to smell the fruit, they can live to be 360 years old. If you eat one, you can live for 47 thousand years. "

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