The real name is Pingpo and Eichhornia crassipes is an alias. It really looks like Eichhornia crassipes. If you add its color, it is also appropriate to call it the phoenix eye.
I really don't know the origin of the name Pingpo, and I can't expect it.
I just found this kind of fruit tree a year ago, but it shocked me. My first reaction was that it looked like jiaozi.
Others think that Pingpo looks like an ingot.
On closer inspection, it looks like the water chestnut I often picked in the weir pond when I was a child. The size and shape really fooled me.
Growing into such a symbolic fruit, I'm afraid only God knows. Anyway, it is really a mystery to us mortals.
No wonder it is difficult to see this strange fruit casually in the market, because apples are mainly used for sacrifice.
This evergreen tree belonging to the Indus family is not planted anywhere. Even in Guangdong, it can only grow near the south, so it is the fruit that really belongs to South Guangdong.
It blooms in early summer, but very few plants will bloom for the second time in 10 or10/month, which completely subverts the conventional habits of ordinary plants.
Also known as sweet temperature in medicine, it can cure dysentery. The prescription records that Eichhornia crassipes, candied dates and dried tangerine peel are decocted to treat bloody dysentery.
Because its output is really a little low, it was only remembered by South Vietnamese people at the time of sacrifice.
According to Cantonese custom, Pingpo is a fruit specially selected for worshipping the Weaver Girl on Tanabata.
It turns out that this fruit is a little fairy, so it is no wonder that it can only be a rare variety.
It is precisely because it has a fairy taste that people are reluctant to regard it as a vulgar fruit. Plant one or two trees in front of the house or beside the courtyard.
Mature fruits are grotesque, the crown is lush and dense, and leaves rarely fall off. full of green is also a beautiful scenery all year round.
Laoguang is very particular about food, and the seeds of Pingpo can also be delicious ingredients.
You can also steam, boil, roast, molasses and braise in soy sauce, which is said to taste better than chestnuts.
The master of Cantonese cuisine with exquisite cooking skills has also created famous dishes such as "braised chicken with phoenix eyes" and "roasted meat with phoenix eyes".
Apple trees have big leaves, which can also be used to make zongzi. Thanks to the imagination of Cantonese people, it is impossible for the leaves not to smell sweet.