Linyi pomegranate

Linyi pomegranate is a long-standing traditional fruit in Shanxi, also known as "Jiang pomegranate". The average pomegranate weighs about 500 grams, but Linyi pomegranate weighs about 100O grams. The largest is 1750 grams, which is really the "king of the pomegranate". The pomegranate here has huge fruit, thin outer membrane, large seeds, soft kernels, full juice and little dregs. It has 5-7 ovaries and 650-680 seeds with the same bud, which is crystal clear and translucent. There are three flavors: sweet, sweet and sour. When eaten, the sweet pomegranate tastes sweet and mellow, the sour pomegranate tastes sour and refreshing, and the sweet and sour pomegranate tastes sweet first and then chewed, with sweetness in the acid and endless aftertaste. According to legend, the pomegranate here has been fragrant in the capital since the Ming Dynasty. The emperor once ordered the local people to pay tribute to the capital every year, such as pomegranate and sweet well water for watering pomegranate. When you come to Linyi, you can see pomegranate trees, with bright red flowers in summer and drooping fruits in autumn. It can be said that pomegranate is as red as fire in May, and pomegranate loves evil people in August! The local area also regards "weeping willow branches" as a major landscape in Linyi. Linyi pomegranate is not only a good fruit with rich nutrition and unique flavor, but also a good medicine for treating many diseases. Its fruit, leaves, flowers, skins and roots can all be used as medicine. Mashing pulp, soaking in boiling water, filtering, cooling, and gargling several times a day can cure tonsillitis and stomatitis. Pomegranate is dried and stored as aged pomegranate, which can cure chronic dysentery. Dry pomegranate peel can cure enteritis, biliary tract infection, tracheitis, pneumonia, chronic appendicitis, traumatic infection and many other diseases. Now, with the efforts of the local people, Linyi pomegranate has been greatly developed, and the colorful and sweet pomegranate has added infinite color to people's lives.
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