Generally speaking, the sweeter the wild fruit, the more popular it is. For those sour wild fruits, it has always been unpopular.
But in the mountains, not all wild fruits are sweet, and some wild fruits are sour even when they are ripe.
Today, the kitten will introduce you to several kinds of "sour tooth" wild fruits, but in the past, rural children liked them very much. How many do you know now? How much did you eat? Let's recall our childhood together!
(1) acid cylinder rod
In fact, this is not a wild fruit, because it eats its tender stems. However, in the past, children in rural areas often ate it as a wild fruit.
Polygonum cuspidatum is a perennial herb, which likes to grow near rivers and ditches. Its stem looks like bamboo, and the inside is empty. But there are spots like tiger stripes on the water.
After spring, it grows out of the ground and grows quickly. In a few days, it can grow taller than people. And if you break it from the root, you can eat it directly in your mouth, which is very crisp.
In the past, rural children used to eat it as sugar cane, but sugar cane was sweet, while acid pole was toothless. It is estimated that many people swallowed their saliva when they heard its name.
(2) Myrica rubra
Myrica rubra is an expensive fruit in northern China. On the one hand, there is no Myrica rubra in the north, on the other hand, this fruit is not resistant to storage, and the transportation and preservation costs are high, so it is expensive.
But in the south, not only many people grow this kind of wild fruit, but also there are many wild bayberry in the mountains. Every May and June, when wild bayberry is ripe, many people go to the mountains to pick it. But now, even if it falls, few people pick it up.
(3) Goat milk fruit
This kind of wild fruit can hardly be seen in the north, but it has been planted artificially in some places in the south.
I don't know the scientific name of goat fruit now. It is a common plant in southwest China, which used to be mainly wild.
When it is ripe, the fruit is bright red or purple. It looks tempting, but it tastes sour, even if it is well-done. So it was usually pickled with salt and pepper at that time.
But in recent years, someone has cultivated a sweet variety, which is bigger and sweeter to eat.
(4) Papaya
A wild fruit that makes many southerners drool at the sound of its name is a kind of papaya native to China, and the common papaya in the market, also called papaya, is a real invasive species.
Papaya is very small, less than the size of kiwifruit, and there are many seeds in it after cutting. This kind of wild fruit tastes sour. It is usually used as a snack or cold dish.
(5) wild kiwifruit
Although there are some wild kiwifruit in the north as well as in the south. And this time, it is the mature season in wild kiwifruit.
Wild kiwifruit, because it grows in the wild, no one fertilizes it, and no one sprays pesticides for management, so it is generally not big, even less than an egg.
This kind of wild fruit was seldom eaten in the past because it was small and tasted sour. But since kiwifruit became popular, so did wild kiwifruit, and now the price is more expensive than the planted kiwifruit.