Have you ever seen this kind of fruit, do you want to take a bite, it looks delicious.
Today, let's get to know a tree, it's called paper mulberry . If you plant a tree, it may be in our southern region. It is a relatively common tree. I don't know, please let me know if there are friends in the northern region.
paper mulberry is also called mulberry , it is a plant of mulberry paper mulberry, paper mulberry is everywhere on our side, it may not be so eye-catching in normal times, but when the fruit matures Ah, everyone may think, eh, what kind of fruit is this? It's so beautiful. Paper mulberry is a dioecious plant. I just saw that this is the fruit of a female tree, and this is a flower of a male tree, isn't it? It looks a lot like the mulberry, but it's not surprising. They all belong to the Moraceae plant. Many people may ask, is this fruit edible?
Paper mulberry looks so beautiful, it seems to be delicious, in fact, this fruit is edible, but it is not recommended for everyone to eat it, why? Look at the flesh of this fruit, it is exposed outside, and it is not covered by the peel, so there are a lot of bugs, dust, etc., and it is very unsanitary, so it is not recommended for everyone to pick and eat.
The leaves of this paper mulberry tree are very interesting. In different seasons and different temperatures, the shape of its leaves is different, and the shape of the leaves on the same tree, on the same branch, is not the same. Yes, paper mulberry is to prevent bugs from eating it, so it keeps changing the shape of its leaves, so that the bug can't remember it, so the bug doesn't eat it.
When we were young we called this paper mulberry milk tree ah,Because if you stab it lightly with a knife, then it will flow out the milky white juice. This is a characteristic of Moraceae plants. Although this paper mulberry is inconspicuous, it is still very useful in our rural areas. When there was no hogweed in the past, I cut the leaves of this tree and fed it back to the pigs. That pig loves it very much.
And the whole body of the paper mulberry has medicinal value, its leaves and roots can be used as medicine, and its juice can treat skin diseases, and everyone knows one of the four great inventions of our country, papermaking, It is made from the bark of this paper mulberry as the raw material. When Cai Lun invented papermaking, he used this kind of bark. Take a look at its fiber, whether it is very special. It is particularly tough, and it keeps falling, including some relatively advanced paper and some rice paper, etc., which are still made of this raw material.
Paper mulberry can purify the air
can resist sulfur dioxide, hydrogen fluoride and chlorine gas and other toxic gases, can be used as wasteland, remote areas and heavily polluted factories Green tree species.
Medicinal value of paper mulberry
In traditional Chinese medicine, the fruit is called mulberry fruit , paper mulberry, and it is used together with the root as medicine. Indications: tonifying kidney, improving eyesight, strengthening muscles and bones. Paper mulberry is used as medicine with emulsion, root bark, bark, leaves, fruits and seeds. Emulsion, leaves, fruits and seeds are collected in summer and autumn; root bark and bark are collected in winter and spring, used fresh or dried in the shade.
Nature and flavor: sweet, cold; leaves sweet, cool; skin sweet, flat.
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