Cherry plums are distributed in Central Asia, Tianshan Mountains, Iran, Asia Minor, Balkan Peninsula and China. Distributed in China and Xinjiang. It grows in hillside forests at an altitude of 800-2000 meters or on stony slopes and the waterside of canyons.
Cherry plum is rich in vitamins, amino acids and minerals, and its fruit is rich in nutrients such as Vc, VB 1, VB6, β-carotene, potassium, calcium, iron, zinc, selenium, magnesium, protein, water-soluble pectin, sugar, acid and soluble solids, especially potassium.
It not only has outstanding nutritional value, but also has certain medical functions. Pericarp contains rich and stable red pigment, which has high application value in food, medicine, forestry and other fields. Its pulp can also be processed into drinks, jams and so on. Pectin, fruit acid and other substances can be extracted from fruit, which can be processed into nutritious protein drinks after debittering and deacidifying. Besides, it is the best fruit wine.
As a valuable wild fruit tree resource in Yili, Xinjiang, the natural population of wild cherry plum plays an important role in protecting the biodiversity of wild fruit forest and maintaining and improving the ecosystem function.
Extended data
Wild cherry plum germplasm resources are rare wild fruit tree germplasm resources in Xinjiang, China, which are only distributed in Huocheng County, Yili Prefecture, Xinjiang, China, and have extremely important protection value. Due to the unreasonable development and utilization of wild cherry plum, the resources of wild cherry plum are decreasing. The exploitation of predatory resources, overgrazing and reclamation of farmland have seriously damaged the resources of wild cherry plum fruit trees, and the area of wild fruit forests has decreased, which is on the verge of extinction.
Endangered reason:
1. Unreasonable logging makes the distribution lower limit of wild cherry plum move up obviously, and the distribution density of wild cherry plum and other tree species decreases obviously. Some designated trees were cut down at will, and the vegetation under them was obviously destroyed.
2. The phenomenon of blind deforestation and land reclamation is serious, which destroys wild cherry and plum resources in a large area; The population density on the mountain is increasing, and more and more people enter Daxigou every year to engage in economic development, resource recovery, tourism and other projects. The ecological environment in the ditch is deteriorating day by day, which leads to the extinction and crisis of some biological species in the wild fruit forest area, and the population number and distribution area are reduced. Many rare species are endangered.
Wild cherry plums are mostly distributed in floodplains with frequent human activities. There used to be patches of pure cherry plum forest, but now it is basically gone. Due to the destruction of forests and roads in Miaoergou, many wild cherry plums designated in that year were destroyed.
3. Because of overgrazing, vegetation is not protected. There are nearly ten thousand fixed livestock in Daxigou alone. In addition, every spring, the transferred herds pass through Daxigou, and the temporary tents are scattered in the distribution area of wild cherry plums. Sheep farmers drove flocks of cattle and sheep to the mountains, and the cattle and sheep ate seedlings, which seriously damaged the vegetation under the wild fruit forest, causing large-scale soil erosion, and the roots of many wild fruit trees were exposed, which made the growth potential of the whole wild fruit forest decline.
4. Daxigou in Huocheng County, Xinjiang, China has been developed into a tourist destination. Every year in the flowering and fruiting season of wild cherry plums, a large number of tourists go up the mountain to play, pick flowers and fruits at will and litter.
Predatory management is a serious phenomenon. Every year when the fruit is ripe, a large number of people will go into the mountains to pick fruit. When collecting, I beat with a stick, saw with a chainsaw, killed the chicken to get the egg, and fished in the desert, which made the wild cherry plum scarred.
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