A common thorn fruit in rural areas is golden cherry.

Golden cherry tree is an evergreen climbing shrub distributed in Shaanxi, Sichuan and some southern provinces in my country. It often grows in shrubs on sunny slopes, fields and rivers. Its other names include prickly pear, mountain pomegranate, pheasant head, monk head, oil cake fruit, etc. It is a plant of the genus Rosa in the family Rosaceae.

Evergreen climbing shrub, five meters high; small branches thick, with sparse flat prickles, smooth. The compound leaves often have three leaflets, sometimes five. The leaflets are often egg-shaped, about three centimeters long, with sharp serrations on the edges. The surface is bright green and hairless, and the underside is yellow-green. The stipules are lanceolate, with fine teeth on the edges, and fall early. The flowers are solitary in the leaf axil, and the diameter of the flower is about five centimeters; the flower stalk and calyx tube have glandular hairs, and when the fruit grows up, it becomes a needle. The calyx lobes are lanceolate and the apex is leaf-shaped; the petals are white. Blooms in April and May.

How to eat golden cherry blossoms

After ripening, fresh golden cherry blossoms can actually be eaten as fruit. Not only does it have super high nutritional value, but it also tastes very good. Excellent, sweet and sour, and contains vitamins, sugars and minerals inside, which will guarantee human health to a certain extent. After drying the golden cherry seeds, put them into tea water and brew them. This is also the most common way to eat them. Every time we make tea, we can put 5 to 6 golden cherry seeds into the tea cup. Add boiling water to replace it. Tea drinking.

One of the ways to eat golden cherry seeds is to steam them. You can remove the core, skin, etc. from the golden cherry seeds, then place them in Wanli, add twice as much rock sugar as the golden cherry seeds, then pour a certain amount of water, put them in a pot and steam them for an hour, then take them out. It's ready to eat. First soak the golden cherry seeds, then boil them for a period of time, then add rice, add a certain amount of water, and cook them into porridge.