Windflowers are not hardy. The wind flow fruit belongs to the medium temperature zone planting cultivation, suitable for high temperature and sunny place to plant, no flowers, every three years to bear fruit, in the late ripening of the fruit, must be in the high temperature of 30 degrees 100 days before picking. So it is not hardy.
Fengliu fruit is scientifically known as thick scaly coca, because of the form like a turtle head, also known as aphrodisiac fruit, kidney fruit, beneficial kidney son, Magudo. Smell is fresh wood flavor, raw kernel coat taste bitter and astringent, flesh sweet.
Morphological features
Tree, 10 to 20 meters high, 30 to 40 cm in diameter at breast height, bud scales covered with brown long straight hairs, the current year's branches, petioles, leaves on the dorsal veins and inflorescence axes are covered with branched stellate short hairs. Young leaves are thinly papery, brownish-black when dry, and long leaves are stiffly papery, obovate-oblong elliptic or long elliptic.
Long 20 to 35 centimeters, 6 to 11 centimeters wide, apically obtuse or mucronate, base broadly cuneate, leaf margins with serrated cleft teeth, mid-lateral veins are impressed, lateral veins 25 to 30 per side, reaching to the end of the teeth, tertiary veins are obvious, subparallel to each other, the same color on both surfaces, the leaf dorsal vein axils are often covered with tufts of hairs, petiole 1.5 to 2.5 centimeters long.