White fruit can also be called ginkgo, its white fruit kernel nutritious, is one of the nuts favored by many consumers, that you know what is the fruit of white fruit? Its flavor and how it? White fruit is a kind of nuts, many people like to eat, however, there is also a part of the people do not know about the white fruit, let alone eat the white fruit, in fact, the taste of the white fruit is also a little special, slightly bitter taste also let a lot of people keep a distance, in fact, the white fruit is also a good high nutrition nuts. What does it look like? Next let us come together to understand what is the white fruit as well as enjoy some white fruit pictures it.

A, what is the fruit of the white fruit

White fruit is the seed of the ginkgo.

Ginkgo, also known as white fruit, is the oldest surviving seed plants in the relict plants. Botanists often compare ginkgo to dinosaurs and are known as the giant pandas of the plant world. Ginkgo belongs to the category of dried fruits, and among the many dried fruits, ginkgo ranks third in economic value. The value of the white fruit is mainly in edible and medicinal use.

Consumption of white fruit, health and longevity, ginkgo in the Song Dynasty was listed as a royal tribute. Japanese people have the habit of daily consumption of white fruit. Westerners Christmas must have white fruit. In terms of the way of consumption, white fruit is mainly fried, roasted, boiled, with vegetables, pastries, preserves, canned food, drinks and alcohol. The medicinal use of white fruit is mainly reflected in medicine, pesticides and veterinary medicine 3 aspects.

Two, what is the taste of white fruit

Taste: sweet; bitter; astringent; flat; small poison.

Three, white fruit is what kind of

White fruit is the seed of ginkgo, ginkgo, deciduous tree, up to 40 m. Branches have long and short branches, young trees bark light gray-brown, shallow longitudinal fissure, the old is gray-brown, deep longitudinal fissure. Leaves are spirally scattered on long branches, and in clusters of 3-5(-8) on short branches; the stalk is 4-12cm long; the leaf blade is flabellate, light green, glabrous, with mostly 2-forked juxtaposed veinlets, the upper margin is 5-8cm wide, shallowly undulate, sometimes centrally lobed or y cleft.

Dioecious, flowers unisexual, sparsely homozygous; globose flowers are borne in the axils of scalelike leaves at the tips of short branches; male globose flowers are catkin-like and pendulous; female globose flowers are long peduncled, the peduncle ends are often bifurcate, and each fork is topped by a disk-like ovoid seat, which produces an ovule, only one of which develops into a seed.

Seeds drupelike, ellipsoid to subglobose, 2,5-3,5cm long, about 2cm in diameter; outer testa fleshy, with white powder, yellowish or orange-yellow when ripe; middle testa bony, white, 2-3-angled; inner testa membranous, endosperm rich. Flowering period in March-April, seed maturity in September-October.