Proverb cloud: "peach three apricot four pear five years, jujube tree that year to sell money". Is that the apricot tree four years on the blossom and fruit, benefit earlier, five years into the fruitful period; its general life expectancy of 40 years to 100 years, there is a "longevity tree," the name.
The apricot tree is generally 5 to 7 meters high, the crown is more sunny and happy type, dense branches, leaves into ovate, broadly ovate, leaf blade edge has a fine obtuse serration, the back of the leaf is slightly hairy or glabrous.
The fruit of apricot tree is round, called apricot, the skin is reddish-yellow, the meat is about half a centimeter thick; apricot kernel has three kinds of nucleus: free nucleus, half free nucleus and sticky nucleus. The nuclear surface is smooth, the edge has a groove; apricot kernel is thin and hard, there are almonds inside. Almonds have sweet, bitter points, apricots generally weigh 20 grams to 70 grams, large up to 100 grams or more.
The apricot tree is highly adaptable, and the adult apricot tree has a thick skin, which can withstand cold temperatures of minus 20 to 30 degrees. Apricot tree root system is developed, into the soil is very deep, about the height of the tree is equivalent, which is also the reason for its cold resistance.
The apricot tree usually buds in early April and blossoms in the middle of the month, with a flowering period of five to seven years. Every year when the apricot blossoms, the hillside, riverbanks, both sides of the road a pink and white, such as yarn, like a dream, like a fog, fragrance, refreshing. early May, with the apricot blossoms withered. Green apricot high hanging branches. Apricot has two growth climax, the first occurred in early May, the second in July, but weaker than the previous. After this, the apricot trees are dotted with green apricots and the harvest is in sight. The wind is blowing, a green apricot like grasping the branches of the tree swing like, very happy. Every year in May and June when the wheat harvest apricot ripe, far away, full of golden trees, it is time to pick the harvest.
The apricot is not easy to store and transport, picking to take the green early harvest, to avoid broken branches and leaves. Harvested red apricots, white apricots should be transported to the fruit market in a timely manner, the general apricots should be quickly processed peeled, the pulp dried.
Apricot is a favorite fruit, rich in nutrition and a variety of vitamins. Apricots can be made into dried apricots, apricot jam and so on. Almonds are mainly used to extract oil, but also can be made into food, and medicinal use, have a cough, laxative effect. Almond is China's traditional commodities, every year for the country for a large amount of foreign exchange; apricot wood hard, is a good material for furniture; apricot tree branches can be used as fuel, apricot leaves can be made of fodder. Apricot tree is a treasure, is the money tree of the farmers.
With the improvement of people's living standards and the development of foreign trade, apricots, almonds need more and more. In the future, all parts of the country can be cultivated according to the conditions, and further improve the varieties, transplantation tests, so that the north of the apricot south, so that people around the motherland can eat apricots, almonds , in order to meet the needs of the people.