And passion fruit in recent years is also much loved by everyone, although its own flavor is a little sour, but can not help it is a rich fruit ah, with passion fruit with honey to soak a cup of water, don't mention how good it is.
So if passion fruit has the flavor of durian, what will it be? Recently, a reader told the author, she is ready to plant some passion fruit in their own gardens, so that usually used to soak water to drink, the results of a shopping site a search, searched out a kind of durian flavor passion fruit seedlings, according to the description of the inside said that this passion fruit a catty one, but also can be four seasons fruit, is it true?
The author also to this reader to come to the link of the fruit seedlings, click in to see, good guy, this girl is pit people, as to why it is pit people, the author will give you to say, but also casually let you understand this durian flavored passion fruit in the end is what!
Recognize durian flavored passion fruit
This durian flavored passion fruit, although and durian is also full of thorns, but it is neither durian, nor passion fruit, and are not fruits, up to a kind of wild fruits, and also and durian and passion fruit half a penny relationship has no, it's scientific name is called "wood turtle", the fruit is called wood turtle, is a kind of fruit, is a kind of fruit, is a kind of fruit. The fruit is called wood turtle son, is the cucurbitaceae bitter melon perennial herbaceous vine plants, so to say climbing relationship, this durian flavored passion fruit at most a "bitter melon".
Some online stores not only changed the name of the wood turtle, but also said that it is a new type of fruit introduced from Thailand, in fact, it is not. Wood turtle is a native plant in China, widely distributed in China, basically the Yangtze River Basin south of the region are distributed in Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan and other provinces and regions, the wild in the countryside in the field of the ravine, the edge of the forest and the side of the road, counting on the south of the rural areas of the more common wild plants.
The fruit of the wood turtle is really a catty one, but also four seasons results?
As for the description that the reader said, "This passion fruit is one catty a catty, and can also bear fruit in all seasons," it belongs to the half-truths and half-falsehoods. Wood turtle is larger, but generally only half a pound more, of course, the largest is also able to grow to a pound, but that has to be thinned to achieve. The four seasons of the fruit is unrealistic, the flowering period of the wood turtle in June-August each year, the fruiting period is in August-October, and the fruit will be so once a year.
Is the wood turtle edible?
Since the wood turtle is sold online as a new type of fruit, there is still the question, can it be eaten?
The answer is yes, it can be eaten. In fact, in many areas of the south of China's rural areas, wood turtle is a common "game", and it can eat the parts, in addition to the fruit, the young stems and leaves can also be eaten. For example, in Yunnan province, whenever spring comes, local farmers will go to the mountains to pick the young tips of wood turtle, tied into a handful of the market to sell, very popular with local diners.
There are many ways to eat the young tips of the wood turtle, either stir-fried like a vegetarian dish or boiled in soup, or stir-fried with slices of meat. Whichever way you eat it, the flavor is refreshing and delicious, and the color is tender and green and attractive.
As for the wood turtle's fruit, wood turtle seed, it is another flavor. It mainly consumes the seeds inside, which are red like coins, and tastes sweet with a hint of bitterness.
In fact, a lot of rural areas in the south, this wood turtle is a lot of rural children's childhood often eat a kind of wild fruit it, and now it is on the Internet was made into a new variety of fruits, but also said to be the durian flavor passion fruit, purely hanging sheep's head to sell the meat of the dog, the pit of the consumer, so we want to be on the Internet to buy passion fruit seedlings to grow their own, see this kind of don't buy it, be careful not to be pitched.
However, if you want to experience what the flavor of the wood turtle is, you can buy it to plant, but it should be noted that it is only once a year to bear fruit, not four seasons of results. It's also important to note that the seeds of wood sorrel are slightly poisonous, so be careful when eating them!