Tephrosia trees bloom in the first year, bear fruit in the second year, and mature in the third year. But generally a tephrosia tree needs to grow for hundreds of years to blossom, and grafted ones usually take about 10 years to bear fruit. The Cephalotaxus tree is China's unique woody oil tree species, its fruit is the famous dried fruit, the trunk height of up to 20 meters, up to 1 meter in diameter, branches and trunks above the 3 to 4 diagonally upward stretching trunk.

I. Tephrosia blooms in one year and produces results in two years

Tephrosia trees bloom in the first year, produce results in the second year, and ripen in the third year, though generally a tephrosia tree needs to grow for hundreds of years to bloom. Grafted Cephalotaxus saplings generally take about 10 years to bear fruit, and a newly fruiting tree can produce about one pound of fruit per year, up to 20 pounds within five years.

Second, the tephrosia tree introduction

The tephrosia tree is China's unique woody oil tree species, its fruit for the famous dried fruit, fried crunchy and tasty, with a special flavor, popular among people. The endosperm of Cephalotaxus fruits contains 40% oil, 10% protein and 28% carbohydrates, which is a good edible oil.

The Cephalotaxus tree is up to 20 meters high and up to 1 meter in diameter, with 3 to 4 diagonally upward stretching trunks above the branches. It has pendulous branchlets, which are green in the first and second years of life, and greenish-purple or purple in the third and fourth years of life. Its seeds are rectangular or obovoid.

The Cephalotaxus tree grows at altitudes up to 1400 meters, in warm, rainy, yellowish, reddish and yellowish-brown soil areas. It is native to Zhejiang Zhuji Fengqiao, Xihuang three pits at an altitude of 600 meters or so of the mountain slopes, and now there are more than a century of large trees. Now mainly distributed in southern Jiangsu, Zhejiang, northern Fujian, southern Anhui and other places.