The fruits of tortoiseshell flowers can be used for medicine and extracting spices. Tortoiseshell can be used for making flower tea, and its fruits, flowers and leaves can be used for medicine and extracting spices. Because the fruit can be born on the plant for 2-3 years without falling, every other year flowers and fruits with the existence of the same, as if "three generations of the same hall", and therefore also known as tortoiseshell. With the international market demand for pure natural spices is expanding, each ton of tortoiseshell flower oil sold at 4 million yuan, each ton of leaf oil 1.1 million yuan.

Tortoiseshell flowers first year fruit to stay in the tree over the winter, the second year will be in the same branch blossom new fruit, two generations of fruit growth in the same tree, generation after generation, so the name "tortoiseshell". The new fruits of tortoiseshell flowers are reddish-orange, and the skin color of the old fruits is greenish-yellow, so it is also called "greenish-orange".

The fruit also contains hesperidin, new hesperidin, naringenin, orange pigment, citric acid, malic acid, salicylic acid, tannic acid and so on. Seeds contain about 18% fat oil, and contain bitter components of lemon bitter. The leaves contain salicin and volatile oil.

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The contraindications of tortoiseshell flowers

1, women should not be consumed during pregnancy as well as children.

2. It is not suitable for people with weak physique.

3, should not be consumed together with other flower tea.

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