Bergamot (scientific name: Citrusmedica? L.var.? sarcodactylis? Swingle): It is usually used as traditional Chinese medicine or as an ornamental plant because of its peculiar fruit shape. A large number of bergamot are made into preserved fruits to eat and sell. When the fruit matures, the carpels are separated to form slender and curved fruit petals, which are like fingers, hence the name bergamot.
Bergamot is an evergreen shrub or small tree, reaching more than ten feet, with hard sharp spines about 6 cm long at the base of stem and leaf, and new branches are triangular. Simple leaves alternate, oblong, with transparent oil spots. Flowers are mostly born in the axils of leaves, with constant flowers in bundles. Among them, there are many male flowers, some of which are bisexual flowers, with five petals of corolla, white with purple halo. They bloom for the first time from the vernal equinox to the Qingming Festival, and often have many male flowers, bearing small fruits. The other time around long summer, it ripens in September 9- 10/0, and the fruit is large for medicinal use, with bright yellow skin, wrinkled and shiny, and divergent tips.
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