The berry is fleshy, pendulous, 5-angled, rarely 6- or 3-angled, stellate in cross-section, 5-8 centimeters long, light green or waxy yellow, sometimes dark reddish. Seeds blackish brown. Flowering April-December, fruiting July-December.

Grows on roadsides, open forests or gardens. Prefer warm, wet species. Frost and cold areas can not grow. In the average annual temperature of 20-26 ℃, the extreme minimum temperature of 2-7 ℃, annual precipitation of 1000-2400 mm in the low and middle altitude areas can grow well.

Light-loving, but also tolerate some shade. Prefer to live in moist and fertile soil, but in dry and thin conditions can also grow and bear fruit, but the growth of the difference is large, drop more flowers, fruit small. Suitable soil is 5-20 centimeters above the sandy loam for the surface of the red soil or yellow-red brick red soil.

Note: Don't eat popcorn if you have kidney disease

Popcorn can indeed be a killer for people with kidney disease, and can be life-threatening if eaten inadvertently. However, because of this toxic effect on the population of the impact surface is small, so for a long time did not attract people's attention.

But some scholars have observed that people with normal renal function are starving, or sweating a lot (the body is in a state of water shortage), eating a lot of sour peach juice in a short period of time, the blood creatinine will suddenly rise, acute renal failure.

If patients with kidney disease eat too much poplar, the neurotoxin contained therein will make some patients with kidney disease experience confusion, weakness and numbness of the limbs and feet and other symptoms, and even coma. And patients with renal failure even if they eat a poppyseed, there will be varying degrees of toxicity, the heavier will make the condition rapidly develop into uremia, or even death.

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