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August melon
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August melon is also known as September fry, some mountainous areas of Henan Province, called "August fry" (August fry, September fry, the name may be different with the different ripening time of different places), there are also areas called eight night melon, Fujian area is generally called wax. Some areas are called eight-night gourd, and Fujian is generally called wax. Mutong and three-leafed Mutong fruit, wild fruit. Named for the ripening and cracking of the fruit in August. Fruit shaped like a banana, rich in sugar, vitamin C and 12 kinds of amino acids, as well as the human body can not synthesize valeric acid, methionine, isoleucine, phenylalanine, lysine and so on. Fruit flavor is sweet, for the pollution-free green food, "earth banana". Most of the bananas are found in the Tianzishan scenic area. Suoxiyu, Yangjiajie and other foothills and valleys, forest edge bushes in the wild resources. For the superior wild fruit, is now listed by the relevant departments as a key development project 10000.
Chinese name: August melon
Latin name: Holboellia latifolia Wall1
Alias: cow cashew fruit, August fried, September fried, etc.
Boundary: Botanical
Portal: Angiosperms
Organism: Dicotyledons
Organism: Ranunculaceae
Family: Moutonaceae
Genus: Augustiaceae
Region of Distribution: part of the Henan mountainous region
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Botanical Forms
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Introduction
Alias August Fry, September Fry, Fragrant Honeydew Melon, Cow's Waist Fruit, June Melon, Lesser Eight Melon, Which Melon, Yellow Dog's Kidney, Wooden King's Melon, August Fruit, Wild Man's Melon, Prickly Vine Fruit, Cow's Lazy Pouch Fruit, King's Na'zu, Cow's Mother's Melon (Leshan, Sichuan), Xu melon, cow egg stumptown, (in the southeast of Yu Xiannu Mountain, Sichuan Dazhou Wanyuan, Xuanhan area of the mountains are, like to grow in the gravel next to the majority of climbing in the tree) because of Jiangxi Jinxi He Yuan Tianmenling scenic area abounds in this fruit, and the sixteenth generation of Taoism, Zhang Yingshao, especially love to eat this fruit
August melon
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so it is also known locally as the master of the sky fruit. It is picked in the fall when the fruit is ripe and dried in the sun.
Hanyu Pinyin: ba yue gua
Latin Plant, Animal and Mineral Names
1.HolboelliafargesiiReaub.
2.Holboellia latifolia Wall.
3. parviflora (Hemsl.) Gagnep.
Morphological features
August squash
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Evergreen woody vine. Stem and branches with obvious lines. Palmately compound leaves with 3-9 leaflets; petiole slightly slender, 3.5-10 cm long; leaflets subleathery smooth, ovate, ovate-oblong, narrowly lanceolate, or linear-lanceolate, 5.5-14 cm long, (2.5) 3.5-5 cm wide, apex acuminate or caudate-acuminate, base rounded or broadly cuneate, sometimes sub-truncate, dark green above, glossy, pale green below; lateral veins 5-6 per side to anastomosing near leaf margins, with midrib and slender reticulate veins all clearly raised below; petiolules slender, 2-4 cm long, middle one longest. Flowers several in corymb-like racemes; pedicels slender, 1-3.5(5) cm long, several clustered in leaf axils, base covered with broadly ovate to suborbicular bud scales. Male flowers: greenish white, outer sepals oblong, 12-15 mm long, 4-5 mm wide, apex obtuse, narrower in inner whorl, oblong-lanceolate, apex acute; petals tiny, obovate, less than 1 mm long; stamens ca. 12 mm long, filaments linear, ca. 7 mm long, slightly thicker, anthers ca. 5 mm long, with a short convex head at the apex, staminodes small, ovate-conical, ca. 1.5 mm long. Female flowers: purple, outer sepals ovate-oblong, ca. 22 mm long, 7-8 mm wide, narrower and shorter in inner whorl; staminodes small, anthers clavate; petals small; carpels oblong or conical, stigmas sessile, oblique. Fruit irregularly oblong or ellipsoid, reddish-purple when ripe, (3)5-7 cm long, 2-2.5 cm in diam. both ends obtuse and often convex at apex, outside densely covered with small warty bumps; seeds numerous, obovate, testa brown. Flowering April-May, fruiting July-October.