Now I have almost forgotten about Guangzhou’s specialty. It just disappeared. Guava is native to America and has been introduced to Guangzhou for more than 200 years.
Mainly distributed in Haizhu District, Panyu and Zengcheng City and other places.
Are there any varieties?
Seed, early ripening day, palace pink, golden red, birth red, July ripening, etc.
The fruits are mostly gourd-shaped, green or light yellow, refreshing and sweet, with unique flavor.
It can be eaten fresh or canned into canned pomegranate juice or soft-packaged drinks.
The famous one is Datang guava.
·Carambola Carambola, also known as "carambola" and "yangtao", has the scientific name "Wulianzi". 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.
Star fruit fruit has a special shape, emerald green and goose yellow color, thin skin, crispy flesh and juicy, sweet and sour taste.
In addition to containing 10% sugar, it is also rich in vitamins A and C.
Its main varieties include "Juedu (flat-top) sweet carambola", "Jiandu (pointed-top) sweet carambola" and "sour carambola".
The most famous one is the star fruit produced in Huadi, Fangcun District.
Star fruit is an evergreen small tree or shrub. The berries grow alternately throughout the year, but the ones that bloom in July and ripen in the autumn equinox are the best and have the highest yield.
Around the Mid-Autumn Festival is the peak production period of carambola.
·Mango Mango belongs to the genus Mangifera of the Anacardiaceae family and enjoys the reputation of "King of Tropical Fruits".
The mango tree is an evergreen tree with a height of 10-20 meters, a thick taproot and a rounded crown.
The fruit is spherical or kidney-shaped, light green or light yellow.
Its pulp is juicy and sweet, and can be eaten fresh or made into preserved fruit or squeezed into mango juice.
The main mango varieties in Guangzhou include purple-flowered mango, cinnamon mango, string mango, green-skinned mango, and soil mango.
Among them, "Xia Mao Xiangmang" produced in Xiamao Village, Shijing Town, Baiyun District, is a high-quality mango variety well-known both at home and abroad.
In addition to the soft and sweet flesh of "Xiamao Xiangmang", after peeling off the skin, the flesh is dry and easy to store and carry.
It is said that summer grass and fragrant mango were introduced and planted from other places during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. Later, they were designated as tributes because of their high quality.
Nowadays, there are only a few real brand-name fragrant mango trees, and the annual fruit harvest is only one thousand or hundreds of kilograms, which is extremely precious.
· Bailan Zengcheng also produces white olives, which can be made into various cold fruit snacks, such as licorice olives, Huapi olives, osmanthus olives and sanitary olives that we love to eat on weekdays. They are salted, pickled with sugar, or added with
Spices and food colorings are processed through a series of processes.
·Wulan Wulan and white olives are collectively called olives and are a specialty of Zengcheng City.
Olive oil is one of the "Four Treasures of Zengcheng" (the other three treasures are green lychee, silk seedling rice, and jelly grass). It is full of treasures: olive meat can be used to make olive wedges and extract oil. Terminalia can be used in dishes and snacks.
Excellent ingredients; olive stone is the raw material for the 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, Yangjiao, Huangrou, Amanita, Sanfang and Youlanzi are the most famous.
·Banana from Wanqingsha Banana is one of the four famous fruits in Lingnan.
The number of cultivated fruits is second only to citrus, lychee and pineapple.
Banana cultivation in my country has a history of more than 2,000 years. In addition to Dongguan, Zhongshan, Xinhui and Shunde, Guangdong also has Panyu and the suburbs of Guangzhou.
Banana is a large perennial evergreen herbaceous fruit tree in the Musa family. Each banana plant buds and bears fruit once. Each banana plant bears more than ten combs, with 10 to 15 fruits per comb.
Its pulp is soft, sweet and delicious, with a unique aroma. It has the effects of laxative, lowering blood pressure, and preventing hardening of blood vessels.
Bananas are grown on sandy soil in Panyu, and their fruits have a rich aroma.
Among the famous fruits in Guangzhou, plantains are also in the banana category. In addition to bananas, Wanqingsha is also rich in plantains. Its "Red-billed Green Parrot Plantain" is one of the rare varieties of plantains.
The banana fruit is golden in color with a green line on the edge. When ripe, the handle remains green and the top of the fruit is purple-red, hence the name.
·Tanzhou White Cane Panyu City is rich in sugar cane and is known as the "Sugar City", and the white cane produced in Tanzhou Town is even more famous at home and abroad.
Tanzhou white sugarcane is bluish-white in color, with thin skin and crispy flesh, rich juice and sweet taste, and low fiber. It can be eaten as fruit and has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, producing body fluids and quenching thirst.
·Lingnan bonsai Lingnan bonsai is a work of art that uses trees, rocks, etc. as materials, and is artistically processed and carefully cultivated to reproduce the natural look of Lingnan in the pot.
Lingnan bonsai is one of the five major schools of bonsai art in my country. It has a unique style, is colorful, conforms to nature, is famous for its natural beauty, and has a strong interest in life.
The production of Lingnan bonsai mostly uses subtropical and tropical evergreen fine-leafed tree species, such as Yuetong (Gurixiang), Quemei (sour), Fujian tea, tangerine, elm, comb flower (Water horizontal branch), Gypsophila, etc.
, Guangzhou people call these "Shu Zaitou".
There are various composition forms of Lingnan bonsai: single-stem large tree type, double-stem type, cliff type, water shadow type, multiple stems at one end, stone-attached type, combined planting type, etc.
In addition to tree stump bonsai, there are also stone mountain bonsais.
The stones in Shishan bonsai are mainly Yingshi, calcite, Shanhu stone, sandstone, etc., especially Yingshi from Yingde City.
Yingshi is a specialty of Guangdong. Its stone has the characteristics of wrinkles, thinness and transparency.
Lingnan bonsai has a broad foundation in Guangzhou. The art of Lingnan bonsai can be seen everywhere in the halls or balconies of residents' homes, in park corridors or on both sides of the road, and in the bonsai market in Qingping Market.