Bottleneck fruit is also called small juice, small light bulb, pitcher plant and ghost lamp. The fruit usually looks like a small lantern, so its scientific name is bottle fruit, and the Chinese medicine name will be dog grape or gooseberry.

Bottleneck fruit is a kind of berry and Xia Guo, which belongs to perennial herbs. Bottleneck fruit usually blooms in the middle and late May each year and bears fruit at the end of May. Generally, it will be picked and listed in June and July.

What does the bottle gourd look like?

The stem of gourd grows upright, with dense villi on the surface, thick leaves, wide oval shape, bell-shaped flowers, purple filaments and anthers, and yellow fruit when mature.

Where does the bottle gourd grow?

Bottleneck fruit is suitable to grow on the roadside or beside the river valley at an altitude of 1km ~ 2km. Common producing areas are Yunnan, Xinjiang, Guangdong, Henan, Taiwan Province, Fujian and Northeast China.

Efficacy and function of Lagerstroemia indica

Gourd tastes sour and the whole plant can be used as medicine. This kind of fruit can be eaten raw or made into jam, juice or fruit cake. Regular consumption also has the effects of consolidating essence and astringing intestine, stopping diarrhea, tonifying kidney and strengthening yang, resisting oxidation and inflammation, enhancing hematopoiesis, improving enzyme activity and preventing cell aging.