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Lotus mist is evergreen all year round and is also a family greening tree. The tree has beautiful posture, long flowering period, fragrant flowers and beautiful flower shapes. Long fruiting period, numerous fruits, beautiful fruit shape, bell-shaped fruit, bright and dazzling fruit color, spongy flesh, slightly apple aroma, sweet and cool, and the varieties are milky white, turquoise, pink, crimson and so on. Lotus mist is sweet and flat. It contains protein, dietary fiber, sugar, vitamin B, vitamin C and so on. It has a special fragrance and is a natural antipyretic. Because it contains a lot of water, it has antipyretic, diuretic, calming the heart and calming the nerves in dietotherapy.
Nelumbo nucifera likes temperature and is afraid of cold. The optimum temperature for its growth is 25-30℃. It likes moist and fertile soil and has no strict requirements on soil conditions. Sandy soil, clay, red soil and slightly acidic or alkaline soil can be planted, but pruning, nutrition management, irrigation and drainage, cold prevention and production period adjustment should be done well. In addition, thinning flowers and fruits, bagging, harvesting with gloves and receiving goods in the field are all technical links emphasized in the commercialization of lotus spray in Taiwan Province. Professionals believe that this is one of the achievements of scientific and technological research. Without the improvement of this cultivation technique, lotus may still stay in the state of garden cultivation. Lotus spray bears fruit quickly, usually a small amount of fruit can be produced in the second year after planting, and then it will increase year by year. A lotus fog with a tree age of 10 year can harvest 300 to 400 kilograms of fruit every year.
Nelumbo nucifera is a good fruit that can treat many diseases. Sweet in nature, it has the functions of moistening lung, relieving cough, eliminating phlegm, cooling blood and astringing. Indications: lung dryness, cough, hiccup, persistent fog, hemorrhoid bleeding, abdominal distension, enteritis and dysentery, diabetes, etc. Grinding with charcoal can also treat traumatic bleeding and leg ulcers. In addition, there is a folk saying in Taiwan Province Province that "eat lotus mist to clear lung fire". People regard it as a good fruit to relieve summer heat and thirst, and they are used to cooking rock sugar to treat dry cough without phlegm or difficult cough. Lotus fruit is hollow (solid) and looks like a wax pill. People also like to use it as a cold dish at banquets, which is a wonderful fruit for hangover. It is slightly sweet and slightly sour, with the aroma of apples, and leaves fragrance on teeth and cheeks after eating. Dig a hole in the center of the lotus mist, plug the minced meat, and steam on high fire for about 10 minutes. It is a traditional dish in Taiwan Province Province, and it is called "Four Seas". Soak the cut lotus seeds in salt water for a period of time, and then stir-fry them with cucumber and carrot slices. It is not only good in color, shape and taste, but also crisp and delicious. It is a rare summer diet food. Lotus spray is not resistant to storage, generally it can only be stored for one week at room temperature, so it should be sent to the market immediately after collection and packaging. Lotus spray is mainly eaten raw with fresh fruit, and can also be pickled, sweetened, canned, dehydrated and preserved or made into juice.