Alias: phoenix-eye fruit, phoenix-eye fruit with cracked shells that really, really look like a pair of phoenix eyes. Pimpinella fruit ("Ling Wai Dai Ai"), nine layers of skin ("Jun Zi Tang day inquiry hand mirror"), Luo wang Zi ("Compendium"), Pan An fruit ("Sheng Herbal Medicinal Sex Preparedness"), seven sister fruit, Fugui Zi ("Guangzhou Botanical Journal"). Appleseed trees, trees, up to 10 m tall. Bark brown. Leaves are papery, broadly moment-rounded to moment-rounded-elliptic, 8 to 25 box meters long, 5 to 15 centimeters wide, apex acuminate or obtuse, base obtuse, bald; petiole 2.5 to 5 centimeters long. Panicles pendulous, 8 to 28 cm long; flowers polygamous, without corolla; calyx pink, 5-lobed to the middle, lobes triangular-striped, pubescent; androgynous column soft, curved; female flowers few, ovaries hairy, stalked, 5-lobed, styles curved. Follicles leathery, ovate, 4-8 cm long, 2.5-3.5 cm wide, beaked, dark red when ripe, downy. Seeds 1-5, ellipsoid-globose, dark chestnut colored. Fruiting June to July. Fruiting June to July, Xinyi applesauce applesauce is native to Xinyi, Guangdong and Longjin, Guangxi in the south of China, and grows at an altitude of 550 m. It is generally found in valleys and dense forests on mountain slopes, and has not yet been artificially introduced into cultivation. It is an endemic plant in China and is listed as a critically endangered plant in China. Xinyi applesauce its flesh yellow, boiled pine sweet, taste like wind chestnut, a little yolk flavor, rich in starch and sugar, nutrition is very rich. According to Chinese medicine, it has the effect of strengthening the spleen and solidifying the intestines and regulating diarrhea. Stewed with duck meat to clear heat and nourish yin, it is a delicious family soup in the long summer and early autumn, especially fresh and sweet, with spleen and qi, stomach and yin role, and both men and women, young and old. Sweet and warm in nature. Yao Kecheng, "Food Materia Medica": "Sweet, warm." Yao Kecheng's "Food Materia Medica": "Sweet, warm." ② "Herbal Medicinal Properties": "Sweet, flat."

Functions and Indications: Warming the stomach and killing worms. It is used to treat abdominal pain caused by worms, stomach turning and vomiting, and hernia pain. Yao Kecheng, "Food Materia Medica": "Treating worms in the internal organs and children eating mud, abdominal pain, fetish accumulation and hardness. Nourish the liver and gallbladder, brighten the eyes to remove cataracts, relieve cough and fever, relieve the wind, eliminate annoyance and reduce fire." ② "raw herbs and medicinal properties of preparation": "the treatment of pediatric raw tianpazhou (pediatric rotting head ulcers) Calcined to save sex, open the oil to apply; eliminating heat, boiled meat food."

Use and dosage: Internal use: decoction or crushed into powder. Externally: calcined and crushed into powder for application.

Selected prescriptions ① For the treatment of abdominal roundworms attacking upwards, with great pain under the heart and white spots on the face: seven pieces each of Luo Wangzi and Petunia seeds. Water decoction. ② treatment of stomach vomiting food, food that is out; or food, twilight vomiting, twilight food, vomiting: Luo Wangzi seven. Calcined storage sex, daily wine under the square inch dagger, served to the extent. (3) for hernia pain: Luo shangzi seven. Decocted in wine. (Selected from Yao Kecheng "Food Materia Medica")

One, the main characteristics: Xinyi applesauce tree height 8-1 5 meters, the root system is well developed. Fruit for the eyesight of the pod, fruit length of about 1O cm, with a fruit stalk, thick, leathery pericarp, mature fruit is dark red, was short hairy,

Olong rounded ovate, 1-5 seeds per fruit, most of the 3, greenish green skin of the immature fruit, mature gradually turned to red, skin red, black, diagonal split shaped like a phoenix eye, so it is known as the "phoenix-eye fruit". It is called "phoenix-eye fruit" because the skin is red and the seeds are black. Xinyi applesauce is sun-loving, not strict on soil requirements. Although in the barren and gravel soil can grow well, but to well-drained, deep sandy loam soil is the best, sunlight needs to be sufficient, like high temperature and humidity, fertility temperature about 23-32oC. apple apple seedling propagation can be sown, cuttings, high-pressure grafting, etc., but also can be utilized in the propagation of its root tiller seedlings.

Two, the use of value:

1. Food: July-August each year is the harvest of Xinyi applesauce, fresh seeds picked and shelled and dried that is commercial, without special processing. The edible part of the applesauce is its seed kernel, edible methods are varied, can be steamed, can be boiled, it is desirable to bake, molasses and braised, and so on. Boiled applesauce seed kernels, peeled off the black outer seed coat, and then peeled off the light brown translucent middle seed coat, eat light or milky white seed kernels. After peeling the seed kernels soft and white, like a small egg, delicate and beautiful, similar to the flavor and chestnuts, the taste of slightly sweet and fragrant, meat and juicy texture Bei U than chestnuts better. In Guangdong is often used in the cooking of famous dishes, such as pineapple fruit stewed chicken, pineapple fruit roast pork, etc., was included in the "Lingnan Famous Lai".

2. Medicinal use: applesauce to seeds into medicine, have warm stomach, spleen, diarrhea, insecticide, eyesight and aphrodisiac and other effects; eyesight pods shells into medicine, and jujube, Chenpi **** decoction can洽血痢.

3. Ornamental: applesauce flowers are small but large inflorescences, white and red, and can bloom and bear fruit two times a year; eyesight catkins radial arrangement, bright red when ripe, with a good ornamental: coupled with the leaves are large and turquoise, broad crown, tree posture, flower shape are beautiful, good shade performance, suitable for landscape trees and street trees. In addition, because of the apple leaves large, two sides of the glossy, Guangdong like to use its leaves wrapped in rice dumplings, wrapped mochi rake, and so on.

Three, planting prospects: in China's tropical, southern subtropical areas, dry fruit production is quite poor. Currently as a commercial production of only macadamia nuts, cashews, pistachios and a handful of other kinds of dried fruit, and are planted for the introduction of exotic species, their ecological adaptability is poor. And there are many technical problems that need to be solved, such as cashew nuts require high temperature, and macadamia nuts are afraid of typhoons. And Xinyi applesauce is native to China's native tree species, in the planting and development of ecological adaptability, resistance to pests and diseases, reproduction and genetic improvement of rich materials and other aspects of the advantages of ecological and economic benefits of both economic forests, but also the southern endemic mother grain, is a very high potential for development of the dried fruit tree species.

Good luck with your health!