Snow pear in the supermarket is also called qiu zi pear, white pear, sand pear, foreign pear and other aliases.

Snow pear, pear name, meat tender white as snow, so called, is a common fruit. Pears can be eaten raw, can also be steamed, can also be made into soup and soup.

Snow pear tree likes light and temperature, for light-loving fruit trees, annual sunshine between 1600-1700 hours, strong adaptability to the soil, with deep soil, loose soil, water permeability and water retention performance is good, low water table sandy loam is most suitable.

Snow pear distribution range:

Guangyuan city, sichuan province, cangxi county, there is the township of snow pear reputation; Anhui shexian, qimen and huoning around the hui zhou snow pear, history is famous. Hebei shijiazhuang zhaozhou snow pear is famous all over the country.

Millennium Zhaozhou, ten thousand acres of snow tree, and the earliest can be traced back to more than 2000 years ago, as early as in the qin and han era began Zhaozhou Snow Pear was selected by successive dynasties as tribute to the court.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Snow Pear