Because Lamei flowers contain a variety of substances beneficial to the human body, can play a very good effect of summer heat, taste with a bitter flavor, but according to their own preferences to add honey or sugar can be.
Waxberry flowers for the waxberry plant waxberry dry buds, also known as the snow flower, usually in mid-November until about March of the following year, the flowering period is long.
Picked in early spring when the flowers are not open, and dried at low temperature in time. The dried flower buds are round, rectangular or obovate, 1~1.5 cm long, 0.4~0.8 cm wide, the perianth is stacked together in a bud-like, brownish-yellow color, and the lower half is wrapped by most of the membranous scales, which are yellowish-brown, slightly triangular, and slightly hairy. Aromatic, slightly sweet flavor, later bitter, slightly oily.