Acacia flowers can be eaten in April and May.

Acacia flowers, also known as acacia flowers, broadly speaking, acacia flowers refers to the flowers and buds of the legume family, but the open flowers are generally referred to as "acacia flowers", also known as "acacia stamens", and the buds are called The flower buds are called "acacia rice". Often planted on the side of the house, roadside, China is widely cultivated throughout the country, mainly in the north, to the Loess Plateau and the North China Plain for more, usually in April and May each year, the flowering period is generally about 10-15 days.

Acacia flowers can be used to make acacia thorn drink, acacia chrysanthemum tea, rhubarb acacia honey drink, amaranthus acacia congee, ground elm acacia honey drink, two acacia congee and acacia steamed fish. The acacia flower also has good ornamental value, every time the flowering season comes, a string of white acacia flowers decorated with branches, the air is filled with a light elegant fragrance, refreshing.

Morphological features of the acacia flower

The acacia flower is wrinkled and curled, and the petals are scattered. Calyx campanulate, yellowish-green, apex 5-lobed when complete; petals 5, yellow or yellowish-white, 1 piece larger, suborbicular, apex retuse, the remaining 4 pieces oblong. Stamens 10, 9 of them basally united, filaments slender. Pistil terete, curved. Body light. Gas slightly, taste slightly bitter.

Sophora (acacia) is a multiple-flowered, racemose inflorescence with a butterfly-shaped corolla, clustered in full bloom, overlapping and hanging. Florets more crumpled and curled, petals more scattered, intact calyx campanulate, yellow-green, apex 5 lobed; petals 5, to yellow or yellow-white common, but also other colors such as purplish-red (see photos), usually 1 piece larger, suborbicular, apex retuse, the remaining 4 pieces oblong; stamens 10, of which 9 bases united, filaments elongated; pistil cylindrical, curved.