Elm money flower tip to remove.

April is a good time to eat elm money, elm money is the seed of the elm tree, because of the appearance of ancient coins and so named. When the spring wind blows, strings of light yellow and turquoise elm money hang all over the branches, exuding a tantalizing fragrance, attracting people to pick.

Picked home elm money, to first remove its black flower tip part of the pick, picking should be carefully checked to see if there are no eggs and small insects, elm trees are very prone to small insects, so picking and washing must be careful.

Elm money fresh and nutritious, rich in protein, vitamin C, dietary fiber and a variety of minerals. Elm money and "money" with the same sound, has a very good meaning, in the past economic difficulties of the period, used to be people's life-saving food, is now also very popular spring health dishes, become a treasure on the table, a lot of big restaurants can be seen in the figure of it.

Elm morphology

Elm is a deciduous tree, up to 25 meters high, 1 meter diameter at breast height, in the dry barren land grows into a shrub; young trees with smooth bark, gray-brown or light gray, the bark of large trees dark gray, irregular deep longitudinal cracks, rough.

The branchlets are glabrous or hairy, yellowish gray, light brownish gray or gray, sparse light tawny or yellow, with scattered lenticels, without expanded cork layer and raised corky wings. Winter buds subglobose or ovoid, bud scales abaxially glabrous, margins of inner bud scales white villous.

Reference to the above: Baidu Encyclopedia - Elm money