Flower armor is not very expensive in any season. Flower armor is not divided into seasons, all year round can be bought, but flower armor in July and August is the most, because this time is in the summer, seawater is the highest in the spring after the growth period, summer flower armor has slowly become fat. However, its meat flavor is very delicious, every year in the spring is the good season to eat flower armor.

Flower armor is clams, because the Cantonese language clams and flower armor homophonic, clams are written flower armor. Clams in Hainan region called mango snail, is a mollusk, about 3 cm long, shell ovoid, light brown, purple edge. Living in the shallow seabed. The shell is longer and thinner, is long ovoid.

Morphological features

Smaller, shell surface color is generally yellow-brown, shell dark pattern similar to the text but with a concave-convex. The color is dark, the pattern becomes larger, with black, brown, dark brown, dense color or russet composed of spots or patterns.

Flower clam, also called flower clam by Chaoshanese, is a culture species developed in Chaoshan area in the last decade. Its scientific name is miscellaneous clams, shell nearly ovoid, pointed oval at the front end, blunt oval at the back end, shell surface dark yellowish brown, covered with "human" or fire tongue dark brown pattern, shell surface from the top of the shell to the ventral edge of the fine radial ribs. The shell surface has fine radial ribs from the top of the shell to the ventral margin. In general, the shell height is more than 2 centimeters, and the shell width is nearly 4 centimeters.