What effect does China red bean fruit have? How to eat?

China red bean fruit, also known as Vacciniaceae, is an evergreen shrub native to North America, which has diuretic and anti-inflammatory effects. The edible method is mainly to drink the leaves of this species as tea, or to use medicine as urethral disinfectant. Red fruit can be used as jam and fresh food, which is sweet and sour. Leaves can be made into tea, which contains ursolic acid and tannin.

The growing environment of Vaccinium uliginosum is common in larch forest, birch forest, alpine grassland or wet platform, with an altitude of 900-3200m, and often grows in pieces. Alpine moors, heather bushes, coniferous forests, subalpine pastures and tundra in the Arctic are usually born in slightly dry habitats, but they are also born in quite humid peat soil.

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Morphological characteristics of Vaccinium uliginosum

Vaccinium uliginosum is an evergreen shrub with slender creeping rhizomes in the underground part and a height of 10-30 cm in the aboveground part. Stems are slender, erect or prostrate, and branches and young branches are grayish white pubescent.

The leaves are dense, leathery, ovoid or obovate, 0.7-2 cm long and 0.4-0.8 cm wide, with a round top, a convex or slightly concave top, a wide wedge-shaped base, rolled edges and shallow wavy small blunt teeth.

The surface is hairless or hairless along the midvein, with short glandular hairs on the back, the surface of midvein and lateral vein is slightly concave, the back is slightly protruding, and the reticular veins on both sides are not obvious; Petiole short, about 65438 0 mm long, puberulent.

Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia-Vaccinium