Morphological characteristics: Cucurbitaceae is an annual creeping herb. There are translucent coarse hairs on the stem. Tendrils bifurcate. Leaves papery, triangular or ovate. Flowers monoecious, solitary, yellow. The shape of fruit varies with varieties, and the seeds are white.
Habitat distribution: It is cultivated all over the world.
Uses: Fruits are used as vegetables. This species is a variety of zucchini and can also be used as an ornamental plant.
Introduction: "Beigua" is a semi-wild plant. Because of its low yield, it is not as sweet as watermelon, sweet as wax gourd and high as pumpkin, so people don't know much about it.
Beigua is shaped like a pumpkin but smaller, also known as peach pumpkin, and its skin color is red and yellow like gold, so it is also called golden melon. Sweet and flat, non-toxic, it has the effect of moistening lung and relieving asthma. People in China often treat asthma.
According to farmers selling melons in Shuangcheng, this kind of melon is a vegetable variety with low yield and is not suitable for large-scale planting. These melons are planted in a small garden in front of his house. I sold it when I wanted to sell vegetables, but I didn't expect it to be very popular with the public. It takes less than a week to sell one yuan a catty, and dozens of kilograms of melons planted at home are sold out. According to him, Beigua can be eaten raw, cold and stir-fried. The difference between pumpkin and watermelon is that the flesh of pumpkin is yellow and the taste is slightly sweet and fragrant.
[Edit this paragraph] Dietotherapy value
Fruit of the same plant as peach pumpkin. Also known as melon. These two forms are very similar. It is planted in the south. The performance and use are the same as those of peach pumpkin.
The practice of north melon
Many people cook porridge 1 melon millet porridge: wash the melon (the skin can also be eaten) and cut it into small pieces, of course, not too small. When cooking porridge, when the rice is almost cooked, put it in the pot and cook it together. /kloc-it will be cooked in 0/0 minutes. You can try a small piece. When it is cooked, you can drink beigua millet porridge.