1, fig (scientific name: fig? Lynn. ) is a Moraceae and Ficus plant. Deciduous shrubs or small trees; Up to 10 m, multi-branched; Bark is grayish brown with obvious lenticels; Branchlets are stout, leaves alternate, thick papery, broadly ovate, length and width 10-20 cm, palmately 3-5-lobed, lobules ovate.
Having irregular blunt teeth; Petiole thick, 2-5 cm long; Dioecious, male flowers and gall peanuts are on the inner wall of the banyan tree, the male flowers are clustered in the orifice, the female flowers are the same as the male flowers, and the style is lateral; Ficus microcarpa leaves are solitary in axils, pear-shaped, 3-5 cm in diameter, concave at the top, purplish red or yellow when mature, with 3 bracts at the base, oval and achene lenticular. Flowering and fruiting period may-July.
2, jelly fruit, scientific name of Ficus pumila, commonly known as jelly seed, Manglietia, wooden steamed bread, ghost steamed bread, sugar steamed bread, Ficus pumila, old crow steamed bread vine, climbing fruit and so on. The locals also call it table tennis fruit. Mature fruit is rich in pectin and can be used to make jelly. Roots, stems, leaves and fruits are used as medicine, which have the effects of expelling wind and removing dampness, promoting blood circulation and dredging collaterals, reducing swelling and detoxifying, tonifying kidney and promoting lactation.
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Milk contains rubber. Mature fruit is rich in pectin and can be used to make jelly. Roots, stems, leaves and fruits are used as medicine, which have the effects of expelling wind and removing dampness, promoting blood circulation and dredging collaterals, reducing swelling and detoxifying, tonifying kidney and promoting lactation.
The shape of jelly fruit is similar to fig, belonging to climbing family, which is common in climbing on village walls and old roofs. In the Tang Dynasty, Liu Zongyuan wrote a poem: "Surprise the wind with lotus water, whipping oblique rain along the vine", and Ficus pumila is a jelly fruit.
After determination, it was found that bean jelly fruit contains a lot of life elements, such as selenium, iron, zinc, copper, manganese, molybdenum and so on. The existence of these trace elements well ensures people's health needs and is necessary for life.