The countryside can be said to be a great natural treasure house. Perhaps the prosperity of cities is missing in rural areas, but the most indispensable thing is wild vegetables and fruits.

Occasionally having the opportunity to go to the countryside to pick wild fruits is a rare experience for people living in the city.

There are many wild fruits in the countryside, but many of them are unknown to us.

Today I would like to share with you the following 4 common wild fruits in rural areas!

1. Wild mulberries: Wild mulberries are a common wild fruit in rural areas. The mulberries begin to mature in May every year, and the dark red ones are the most delicious.

In the past, there were many mulberry trees in the countryside.

Whenever the mulberries are ripe, children will go to the mulberry trees to pick mulberries.

One by one, their mouths were full of black and purple, and even their teeth had changed color.

Mulberry tastes sour and sweet. In that era, it was the best snack for children.

In fact, mulberries are rich in nutrients and can be used as medicine after being dried. They are a rare delicacy that has both medicinal and food properties.

2. Myrtle fruit (Mountain twister) Myrtle fruit is an edible wild fruit. The berry is oval and pot-shaped, 1.5-2 cm long and 1-1.5 cm wide. It is purple-black when ripe.

The myrtle fruit is first green and then yellow, then yellow and then red, and then red and purple. The fruit is full of fruits, like miniature wine glasses. There is a core in the fruit, much like a worm. There are many seeds outside the core, and the taste is extremely sweet.

The fruit is most delicious when ripe and purple. It produces fluid and quenches thirst. It has a sweet aftertaste and the tongue and teeth will be dyed purple and black.

Note that you should not eat too much of this wild fruit when it is half-ripe. If you eat too much, you must drink a bowl of salt water, otherwise you will have difficulty defecating the next day.

3. Earth fruit is this kind of wild fruit. Does anyone know it?

This kind of wild fruit is called ground fruit, also known as ground pomegranate, mountain dragon and crawling ground dragon. It likes to grow in wasteland, grass slopes or rock crevices. It grows at a low altitude and can be used as a medicinal plant. It is distributed in Guangxi, Yunnan and Hunan.

, Hubei and other places.

Diguo is a creeping woody vine with irregularly slender stems and enlarged root nodes. Young branches are occasionally upright, up to 30-40 cm tall. The leaves are hard and papery, obovate-elliptical, 2-8 cm long.

Width 1.5-4 cm, apex acute, base rounded to shallow heart-shaped, edge wavy and lightly circularly serrated, basal lateral veins short, 3-4 pairs of lateral veins, surface covered with short stinging hairs, backside along the veins

Finely hairy; petioles 1-2 cm long, petioles on standing young branches up to 6 cm in diameter; stipules lanceolate, about 5 mm long, pubescent.

4. Citrus aurantium fruit (Guaizao) Citrus aurantium fruit, berry-like drupe, nearly spherical, 5-6.5 mm in diameter, hairless, yellowish brown or tan when mature.

The fruit has high utilization value. Its plump fruit stems are juicy and nutritious. Laboratory tests have shown that the fruit contains a variety of nutrients and ingredients. The glucose content per 100 grams of fruit is as high as 45%, and the total amino acid content is as high as 2.41.

%, 100 grams of fresh weight contains 23 mg of vitamin C, 345.8 mg of acid, 1.22 g of calcium, 0.31 mg of protein, 3.47 mg of iron, 0.8 mg of phosphorus, 0.12 mg of zinc, 0.74 mg of copper, and 0.2 mg of manganese. The nutritional value is much greater than common

fruit.

Hovenia fruit can be eaten raw, used to relieve hangover, boil fructose, syrup, make beverages, make wine, make vinegar, make preserves, etc.

In addition to the above, there are many delicious foods in the countryside that we have never heard of. The wild fruits picked in the mountains have a natural taste without any additives. They are delicacies formed by nature. If you have the opportunity, you can go to the countryside to pick wild fruits.

, you will feel a full sense of accomplishment.

The fruits of self-reliance are particularly sweet.