Lianwu like warmth and fear of cold, the optimal growth temperature of 25-30 ℃, prefer moist fertile soil, soil conditions are not strict, sandy soil, clay, red soil and slightly acidic or alkaline soil can be planted, but to do a good job of pruning and trimming, nutrient management, irrigation and drainage, cold and production period adjustment, and so on. Lotus fruit faster, generally in the next year after planting will be able to produce a small amount of fruit, and then increased year by year, a tree age of more than 10 years of lotus can be harvested every year three, four hundred kilograms of fruit.
Lianwu is a kind of good fruit can cure a variety of diseases, sweet and flat, function of moistening the lungs, cough, phlegm, cool the blood, astringent, the main treatment of lung dry cough, uh, hemorrhoids hemorrhage, stomach and abdomen distension, enteritis dysentery, diabetes and other diseases. With the kernel charcoal powder can also cure traumatic bleeding, lower limb ulcers. In addition, the Taiwanese folk "eat lotus fog to clear the lung fire said. People regard it as a thirst quenching fruit, used to use it to cook rock candy for dry cough without phlegm or phlegm difficult to cluck out.
Lianwu fruit hollow (also solid), like a wax pill, in the banquet table people also like to use it as a cold dish, is a wonderful fruit of alcohol. It is lightly sweet with a bit of acidity, there is a fragrance of apples, after eating the teeth and cheeks remain fragrant. Dig a hole in the center of the lotus fog, stuffed with minced meat, steamed over a fierce fire for about 10 minutes, is a famous traditional food in Taiwan, known as the "four seas of the same heart". With the lotus fog slices put in salt water for a period of time, and then with the cucumber, carrot slices with fried, not only the color, shape, taste, and crisp and delicious, is an indispensable summer therapeutic delicacies.
Lianwu intolerant of storage, general room temperature can only be stored for a week, harvesting and packaging should be sent to the market immediately after the sale. Lotus fog to fresh fruit is mainly raw, but also salted, candied, canned and dehydrated preserves or made of juice.