The characteristics and origin of monk fruit flowers, and what does the flower of monk fruit look li

Monk fruit flower tea is a treasure of our country and belongs to Guilin, Guangxi.

Native products, born in the beautiful mountains and rivers, sweet taste, easy to drink, containing natural nectar, has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, dissolving phlegm and relieving cough, clearing the liver and moistening the lungs, preventing heatstroke and cooling, regulating blood pressure and lowering lipids, and maintaining beauty and beauty. Excessive tobacco and alcohol, sore throat.

Cough caused by fever, cold, etc.

Laryngitis and tracheitis have a good curative effect and are natural green drinks suitable for all ages.

Yongfu County, Guangxi Province is the birthplace and main production area of authentic monk fruit, which has a planting history of more than 200 years and a complete set of mature planting and processing technology. At present, the planting area of Luo Han Guo in the county is more than 35,000 mu, with an annual output of nearly 200 million fruits, of which more than 70% of Luo Han Guo are concentrated in Longjiang Township. In 1995, Vinh Phuc County was named "the hometown of Chinese monk fruit" by the Ministry of Agriculture; In 2000, it was recognized as the No. 1 famous brand agricultural product by Guilin City, and Yongfu Luo Han Guo was awarded the title of famous brand product at the 2001 China International Agricultural Expo.

Yongfu Luo Han Guo raw fruit and its products have been exported to more than 20 countries and regions such as Japan, the United States, and Singapore.

Monk fruit is the first batch of medicinal and edible dual-use precious Chinese medicinal materials announced by the Ministry of Health, and the glycosides contained in it are more than sucrose.

300 times sweeter, no calorie production, is a precious raw material in the beverage and candy industry, and is the best substitute for sucrose. Drinking monk fruit tea often can prevent a variety of diseases, and modern medicine has proved that monk fruit is good for bronchitis.

Hypertension and other diseases have significant curative effects, and they also play a role in the prevention and treatment of coronary heart disease.

The role of arteriosclerosis, obesity.

Monk fruit is a special economic plant of Guilin, one of the traditional Chinese medicine and export commodities, with high nutritional value, it has the effects of clearing heat and relieving heatstroke, dissolving phlegm and relieving cough, cooling blood and soothing bones, clearing the lungs and moistening the intestines, and quenching thirst. It can treat acute and chronic bronchitis, pharyngitis, and bronchial asthma.

Pertussis, stomach fever, constipation, acute tonsillitis and other symptoms, diabetes.

Patients should also take it. An herbal tea brewed from its fruit.

Prestigious. It can also be used as a condiment in stews, clear soups, cakes, candies, and biscuits. At present, in addition to the export of dried fruits, there are also powders, syrups, fruit essences, cough drops and concentrated fruit sauces.

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Monk fruit flowers are unisexual, dioecious. Male monk fruit flowers are composed of axillary racemes, each inflorescence has 5-7 flowers; bracts 1, short round, about 2 mm long; The flower stalk is about cm long, covered with white pubescence and red glandular hairs; The flowers are whorl-shaped, about cm in diameter, 5 shallowly lobed, the tip of the lobes has a linear pointed tail, about 1 cm long, and there is a curved middle rib in the middle of the dorsal back; petals 5, separated, pale yellow, slightly reddish, ovate, about 2 cm long, about 1 cm wide, veined 6-8, acute, apex with pointed tail, about cm long; The outside of the flowers and petals are pubescent and red glandular hairs; 3 stamens, 1s in the pharmacy"shaped, anthers detached, greenish-yellow, 1 piece 1 chamber, the remaining 2 pieces 2 chambers; The filaments are stubby, greenish-yellow or blue-green. Female monk fruit flowers are solitary in leaf axils, or 2 flowers in clusters on pedicels; stalk length 5 cm; The canal is oblong-elliptic, densely covered with short villi and red glandular hairs, slightly smaller in the upper part, about cm long, about 7 mm in transverse diameter, apex 5-lobed, lobes triangular, about 8 mm long; petals sent, detached, nearly obovate or oblong-lanceolate, ovary subordinate, conninate with the tubulus; The stigma is 3, green, the stigma is 2 forked, there are 3 vestigial stamens, yellow, and the elders can be the same length as the columella.

Flowering period from June to August. The flowers are dioecious; Male inflorescence racemes, 6-10 flowers born in the upper part of the inflorescence axis, also pubescent and black verrucous glandular scales, peduncle thin, calyx tube-shaped, throat often with 3 oblong membranous scales, calyx lobes 5, triangular, apex drill-like tail tip, with 3 veins, veins slightly raised, corolla yellow, covered with black glandular points, lobes 5, oblong, often with 5 veins, stamens 5, inserted under the tube near the base; The two bases are close together, and one is separated, and the base of the filaments is enlarged; Female flowers solitary or 2-5 clustered at the apex of the peduncle 6-8 cm, calyx and peduncle are more than male flower days, vestigial stamens 5, ovary oblong, 10-12 mm long, densely yellowish brown hairy, columella stubby, stigma 3, expanded, sickle-shaped, 2-lobed.

Monk fruit is produced in the mountainous areas of Yongfu County and Lingui County.

Luo Han Guo has always originated in the mountainous areas of Vinh Phuc and Lingui counties. Although it is also sold elsewhere, it is not an authentic monk fruit. Monk fruit is one of Guilin's famous local specialties.

The weather in the north is dry all year round, and the south is hot all year round, so monk fruit is often malnourished, affecting growth, and can only be cultivated in Guilin.

Monk fruit has high requirements for the environment. It can only grow quickly and healthily in an environment of around 30 degrees. Once above 35 degrees, it will gradually stop growing. Its growing habits are to prefer shade and a large temperature difference between day and night, so there are few areas that can meet the conditions.

The essentials of growing monk fruit

1. Lighting conditions.

Monk fruit loves sunlight but is afraid of high temperatures. If the planting temperature is below 15 degrees, it will stop growing and the yield will be greatly reduced. Therefore, the growing temperature must be controlled when planting, which is conducive to the growth of monk fruit.

2. Planting time.

Monk fruit is planted in spring, its growth cycle is about 70 days, and it generally blooms from June to September every year, we plant it in spring and can be harvested from September to November.

Luo Han Guo is known as the "fairy fruit". It is mainly produced in the mountainous areas of Lingui County and Yongfu County of Guilin City, and is a precious native product of Guilin. The fruit has a high nutritional value, rich in vitamin C (400 mg and 500 mg per 100 grams of fresh fruit), as well as glycosides, fructose, glucose, proteins, lipids, etc.

At present, the varieties widely used in production are mainly round fruit type green peel fruit, red hair fruit and tea mountain fruit, which have wide adaptability and high yield. Monk fruit can be divided into the six types introduced above, and the most common one is the Lajiang fruit, this variety is more common in some rural areas along the riverside, and it is also easy to cultivate, I hope you have the opportunity to eat these monk fruit.

Monk fruit has been planted for more than 200 years, and Yongfu County, Guilin, Guangxi, as the origin and birthplace of monk fruit, has now formed a complete set of mature planting and processing technology. In addition, through long-term cultivation and breeding, a number of monk fruit varieties have been developed, many of which are excellent. The quality or yield of these varieties is highly prized by monk fruit growers.

The improvement of quality has also made monk fruit more and more accepted by consumers.

What are the varieties of monk fruit?

The first: Long Beach fruit.

Due to the local soil, climate and other factors, this variety is the best quality among the cultivated monk fruit varieties, its fruit is ovoid oval, or oblong, the top of the fruit is slightly concave, the surface of the peel is sparsely pubescent, the peel is delicate, and the peel has obvious fine veins.

The second type: green peel fruit.

The green peel fruit has the characteristics of high yield and strong adaptability, and the plants of this variety are relatively robust. Moreover, it has the characteristics of early fruiting time, good yield, and less restriction of planting geographical conditions, which is the main variety used in production at present, and its cultivation and planting area accounts for more than 90% of the total, and can be planted in both mountainous areas and plains.

The third type: red hairy fruit.

The red fruit variety has strong adaptability to the environment, high yield, and strong growth of monk fruit branches and leaves, but the fruit of this variety is small in size and resembles a pear-shaped short round shape. The young vines and young fruits of the red hairy fruit are densely covered with red verrucous glandular scales.

Fourth: Camellia mountain fruit.

Chashan fruit is a variety of monk fruit that is wild in the Camellia oleifera forest, and then cultivated through artificial breeding.

The fifth: Lajiang fruit.

Lajiang fruit, also known as Lajiang seed, is cultivated by Luo Han Guo growers in Lajiang Village, Longjiang Township, Yongfu County, Guilin City, Guangxi Province with the seedlings of Long Beach fruit. This variety has oval, oblong or pear-shaped fruits, has a wide range of adaptability, good quality, vigorous plant growth, and is suitable for planting in mountainous or hilly areas.

Sixth: winter melon fruit.

The fruit plant of winter melon is robust and has a high yield, the fruit is long cylindrical, the two ends of the fruit are flush, the shape is similar to that of winter melon, and its seeds are like melon seeds. The leaves of the winter melon fruit are triangular and heart-shaped, and the surface of the fruit is densely pubescent, which is suitable for planting in low mountainous areas.

At present, the varieties with the largest planting area are mainly round-fruited green peel fruit, high-yielding red hairy fruit and tea mountain fruit, which are characterized by wide adaptability and high yield. In the case of Monk Fruit Wholesale**, it can create higher value for Monk Fruit growers.

Monk flowers should be monk fruit flowers, there are male and female flowers.

Monk fruit female flowers:

Monk fruit belongs to the cucurbitaceae vine, monk fruit is sweet and cool, returns to the lungs and large intestine meridian, has the effect of moistening the lungs and relieving cough, shengjin and quenching thirst, suitable for lung heat or dry cough, whooping cough and summer heat and thirst, etc., in addition to the effect of moistening the intestines and laxative.

Modern medicine has proved that monk fruit has significant curative effects on bronchitis, hypertension and other diseases, and also plays a role in the prevention and treatment of coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis and obesity.

It has high nutritional value, and has the effects of clearing heat and relieving heatstroke, dissolving phlegm and relieving cough, cooling blood and soothing bones, clearing the lungs and moistening the intestines, and quenching thirst. It can treat acute and chronic bronchitis, pharyngitis, bronchial asthma, whooping cough, stomach fever, constipation, acute tonsillitis and other diseases, and is also suitable for diabetic patients.

Monk fruit is rich in vitamin C (400 mg to 500 mg per 100 grams of fresh fruit), as well as glycosides, fructose, glucose, protein, lipids, etc.

Monk fruit is a climbing herb; Roots perennial, hypertrophic, spindle-shaped or nearly spherical, 2 5 m long. The stems are slender and dark purple. Tendrons 2

Monk fruit forks several times to the middle. Leaves alternate, petioles 2 7 cm long; Leaves heart-ovate, membranous, 8 15 cm long, broad, apex acute or acuminate, base ear-like heart-shaped, entire, pubescent on both sides. The flowers are dioecious, the male inflorescences are raceme-shaped, and the female flowers are solitary; Calyx funnel-shaped, pubescent, 5-lobed, corolla orange-yellow, 5-lobed, apex acuminate, covered with white interspersed with brown pubescence.

The gourd fruit is round or oblong, pubescent, with 10 longitudinal lines, and the seeds are pale yellow. The flowering period is 6 September, and the fruiting period is 9 November.

I have only seen the fruit, and the taste is very strong; Soak in water and drink sweet, if you don't get used to it, you will feel like vomiting; Traditional Chinese medicine says that it has the best effect on the respiratory system such as tracheitis......I also want to see what the monk fruit looks like on the tree.