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There are more than 500 kinds of fruits in Guangzhou, among which litchi, banana, papaya and pineapple are the most widely distributed, with the largest output and the best quality, and are known as the four famous fruits in Lingnan. In addition, there are mango, carambola, pomegranate, longan, white olive, black olive, yellow peel, waxberry, jackfruit, Sanhua plum, watermelon and so on.

Guangzhou is located in the subtropical zone, with a wide variety of tropical and subtropical fruits, and fresh fruits are on the market all year round, so it has the reputation of "the hometown of fruits". The history of cultivating fruit trees in Guangzhou can be traced back to the Han Dynasty. According to historical records, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty collected "imperial oranges" from Lingnan that year, and Shi Xie, the satrap of the handover of the Three Kingdoms and Wu, presented "Rui oranges" to Sun, all of which refer to sweet oranges, not oranges as commonly mentioned today.

According to the investigation, there are 40 families, 77 genera 132 species and varieties of fruit trees in Guangzhou, and there are more than 500 varieties, among which 33 excellent varieties have been introduced from home and abroad. Famous varieties include Zengcheng Gualv Litchi, Huangdeng Pineapple, Luogang Sweet Orange, Shek Kip Mei Longan and Fangcun Huadi Sweet Carambola. In recent years, varieties such as Hu Aizhi, litchi ripe in August, Hongjiang orange, longan with big fruit, papaya in fruit ear and Cuibao watermelon have been cultivated.

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Litchi, known as the "king of fruits", is abundant in Conghua, Zengcheng and several suburbs of Guangzhou. Its fruit shape is unique, its face is red and pleasing to the eye, its pulp is like jelly, and it is sweet and rich. Excellent varieties include glutinous rice paste, cinnamon flavor, princess smile, hanging green and so on. Among them, the number of Huai branches is the largest, accounting for 70% to 80% of the total output. Litchi is a precious fruit in subtropical zone and one of the four famous fruits in Lingnan. It originated in southern China and has been cultivated for more than 2000 years. At present, there are more than 100 litchi varieties in China, including more than 60 in Guangzhou alone. The quality of cinnamon glutinous rice paste is the best. Guiwei is attractive for its crisp and sweet meat, while glutinous rice paste is famous for its small core, thick meat and rich juice. In the past, it was called "Three Unique Litchi" together with "Bicun Glutinous Rice Paste", "Luogang Guiwei" and "Zengcheng Gualv". Among the three outstanding figures, "Zengcheng Guaqing" is the most precious and has been listed as a tribute by the court.

"Zengcheng hangs green"

"Zengcheng hangs green" has a red shell with green in it, four points are slightly green, and six points are dividends. There is a green line around each litchi. The pulp is white and crystal clear, sweet and refreshing, and has a unique flavor. The hanging green tree, which lives in the hanging green garden in Licheng Town, Zengcheng, is the ancestor of hanging green litchi, with a tree age of more than 400 years and a height of more than 5 meters. Several generations of Gualv descendants have been successfully cultivated, and more than 65,438+000 plants have been planted in several towns and villages in Zengcheng.

Citrus fruit trees

Oranges, oranges, lemons, oranges and grapefruit are a large category of fruits. Citrus is one of the famous fruits in Guangzhou, which is widely planted in Guangzhou. As early as the Southern Dynasties in the 5th century, there were many orange and pomelo orchards in Guangzhou. Today, the American Citi tangerine is indirectly introduced from Europe by Guangzhou Sweet Orange.

Citrus is an evergreen shrub or small tree, with white flowers in late spring, summer and autumn, oblate fruit, red or orange yellow, and sweet and sour taste. It is rich in China and has a history of 4000 years. The main excellent citrus varieties in Guangzhou are: dark orange, banana orange, fragrant orange, red orange, Sihui orange, mandarin orange, Nian orange, Xinhui sweet orange and so on. Guangzhou people say: high orange, naked orange and flat orange vividly illustrate the shapes of orange, orange and orange. Among them, Luogang Black Willow Sweet Orange produced in Luogang Town, Baiyun District is the most famous.

Tanzhou white sugarcane

Panyu is rich in sugar cane, known as the "sugar capital", and the white sugar cane produced in tanzhou town enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad. Tanzhou white cane is blue and white in color, thin in skin and crisp in flesh, with more sweet juice and less fiber. It can be eaten as fruit, and has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst.

pineapple

Originally known as pineapple, it originated in Brazil and was introduced to China in16th century. There are more than 70 varieties, which is one of the four famous fruits in Lingnan.

Pineapple is a perennial evergreen herb of pineapple family, with only one fruit in the center of each plant. Its fruit is cylindrical and is a compound fruit, which consists of many ovaries and floral axis. Pineapple peel has many flower organs (commonly known as fruit eye or pineapple chicken), which is hard and tricky. It must be peeled and dug up before eating.

Pineapple has three fruiting periods in a year, and the quality is the best when it matures from June to August. Fresh food should be bright in color, straight in shape, solid and medium-ripe. There are three common varieties of pineapple: Shenwan, Bali and Sarawak, and the "sugar-heart pineapple" carefully cultivated by Guangzhou fruit farmers in recent years is the best.

"sugar pineapple"

"Sugar pineapple" belongs to Sarawak species. Sarawak, also known as "Hawaii", has two or three kilograms of large and shallow-eyed fruit, which can be eaten after peeling. Its fruit shape is regular, its flesh is smooth and juicy, and its sweet and sour taste is moderate. It is an excellent variety of fresh food and canned food. Among the "sugar-heart pineapples", "Huangdeng Pineapple" produced in Huangdeng Village, Huangpu District, Guangzhou is the best. It is famous for its large meat, thick juice, sweet as honey and unusual smell.

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Papaya, also known as papaya, is one of the four famous fruits in Lingnan, and is known as "the king of Lingnan fruits".

Papaya originated in Mexico and was introduced to China in17th century. Now it is cultivated all over Guangdong, especially in the suburbs of Guangzhou.

Papaya is an evergreen cork tree of Caricaceae, which is also called "three tropical herb fruit trees" with bananas and pineapples. The better varieties produced in Guangzhou are Lingnan species, Suihong, Thai red meat and so on. And the quality of Lingnan species is the best. Its fruit shape is long, round and full, with thick meat and few seeds, and it has the fragrance of osmanthus. Papaya fruit is huge, the fruit weighs one or two kilograms, and the big one can reach six or seven kilograms. Its fruit is fresh, tender and delicious, and rich in nutrition; Can also be stewed, papaya stewed with rock sugar can clear the heart and moisten the lungs, and treat laryngitis and other diseases; Immature papaya can be eaten with sugar as vegetable soup or pickled into "salty and sour papaya".

Bananas on thousands of hectares of sandy land

Among the famous fruits in Guangzhou, there are plantains. Wanqingsha is not only rich in bananas, but also rich in plantains. Its "red-billed green Ying Ge plantain" is one of the rare plantains. Its banana fruit is golden in color, and there is a green line beside the banana. When ripe, the banana stalk remains turquoise and the top of the fruit is purple, hence the name.

Bananas on thousands of hectares of sandy land

Banana is one of the four famous fruits in Lingnan. The planting quantity is second only to citrus, litchi and pineapple.

Bananas have been planted in China for more than 2000 years. Besides Dongguan, Zhongshan, Xinhui and Shunde, Guangdong also has Panyu and Guangzhou suburbs.

Banana is a large perennial evergreen herbaceous fruit tree of Musaceae. Each banana bears buds once, each banana bears more than ten combs, and each comb bears 10- 15 fruits. Its pulp is soft, sweet and delicious, with unique aroma, and it has the functions of moistening intestine, relaxing bowels, lowering blood pressure and preventing arteriosclerosis. Bananas in Wanqingsha, Panyu are produced on sandy soil, and their fruits are rich in fragrance.

Longan in Shek Kip Mei

Longan, whose real name is Longan, is a perennial evergreen arbor plant, which blooms in spring and bears fruit in summer. Its fruit is spherical, its shell is light yellow or brown, its flesh is white and transparent, and its juice is sweet. It is one of the best fruits in Lingnan. Longan with shell can also be processed and baked into dried eyes (that is, longan meat), which is a kind of medicinal material with sedative and nourishing functions.

Longan originated in China and has been planted for more than 2,000 years. At present, longan is widely planted in Baiyun District, Haizhu District, Zengcheng, Panyu and Huadu City. The varieties are Wuyuan, Shijie, Shuiyan, Mizaiyan, Round Eye, etc. Among them, Shijie longan produced in Zhou Xiao Village, Xinjiao Town, Haizhu District is the most famous.

The fruit of Shek Kip-tailed longan is large, with high yield and sweet taste with honey. Legend has it that "Jieshi" means "stone clip". The earliest longan tree grew from a crack in a big stone. Because its roots are caught by a big stone, it has to be drilled into deep soil, and the roots absorb the "essence" of the underground, and the longan fruit is particularly delicious.

Chinese black olive

Olives and white olives are called olives, which are the specialties of Zengcheng.

Olive is one of the "Four Treasures of Zengcheng" (the other three treasures are Diaoqing Litchi, Silk Miao Rice and Mesona), and it is full of treasures: olive meat is used to make olive horns and extract oil; Lazy people can cook and are also good ingredients for snacks; Element core is the raw material of famous handicraft olive carving, which has a history of more than 300 years. There are more than 30 varieties of black olives, among which Xishan, Yang Jiao, Yellow Meat, Amanita, Sanfang and Youlanzi are the most famous.

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Zengcheng also produces white olives. Can be made into various snacks, such as licorice, olive, pepper olive, peeled olive, osmanthus olive, health olive and so on. It is processed through a series of processes such as pickling, pickling with sugar or adding spices and food coloring.

mango

Mango belongs to the genus Mangifera of Cucurbitaceae and enjoys the reputation of "king of tropical fruits". Mango tree is an evergreen tree with a height of 10-20m, a stout taproot and a round crown. The fruit is spherical or kidney-shaped, light green or light yellow. Its pulp juice is sweet and can be eaten fresh, or made into preserved fruit and squeezed into mango juice. Mango varieties in Guangzhou mainly include purple mango, Gui Xiang mango, string mango, green mango and native mango. Among them, Xiamao Xiangmang, which is produced in Xiamao Village, Shijing Town, Baiyun District, is a high-quality mango variety renowned at home and abroad.

The flesh of "Xiamaoxiangmang" is soft and sweet. After peeling, the meat is dry and refreshing, which is easy to store and carry. It is said that Xiamao Xiangmang was introduced and planted from other places during the reign of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, and was later designated as a tribute because of its high quality. At present, there are only a few real famous-brand mango trees, and the annual harvest fruit is only 1000 kilograms, which is extremely precious.

carambola

Carambola is also known as "Carambola" and "Carambola", and its scientific name is "Five Lotus Seeds". Because its cross section looks like a five-pointed star, it is also called "Star Pear" abroad. It is one of the famous Lingnan fruits.

The carambola fruit has a special shape, green and yellow color, thin skin like a film, crisp and juicy meat, sweet and sour. Besides containing 10% sugar, it is also rich in vitamins A and C. The main varieties are "rose (flat) sweet carambola", "pointed (pointed) sweet carambola" and "sour carambola". The most famous is the carambola produced in Huaxiang, Fangcun District.

Carambola is a small evergreen tree or shrub. Berries alternate all the year round, but the quality is the best and the yield is the highest when they bloom in July and mature in the autumn equinox. Mid-Autumn Festival is the peak of carambola.

guava

Guava is native to America; It has been introduced to Guangzhou for more than 200 years. Mainly distributed in Haizhu District, Panyu and Zengcheng. There are varieties such as Early Maturity Day, Fan-Hung Gung, Jinhong, Shengchenhong and July Maturity. Most fruits are gourd-shaped, cyan or yellowish, fresh and sweet, and have a unique flavor. It can be eaten fresh, canned pomegranate or soft-packed beverage. The famous one is Datang Guava.

There is also a private introduction, Xiaofeng Chicken Pie, which is super delicious and spread from Guangzhou to Macau. Now it has become a special food in Macao. Of course, there are also specialty stores in Guangzhou. You can try.