Egg fruit

Dried fruit (scientific name: Passiflora edulia Sims), also known as passion fruit, is the passion fruit lotus leaf lotus grass plants, about 6 meters; stems with fine stripes, glabrous; petals 5, and sepals Long; base pale green, middle purple, top white, berries ovoid, 3 to 4 cm in diam., Glabrous, ripe when purple; seeds numerous, ovate. Flowering in June, fruit in November.

Yi Sheng at an altitude of 180 to 1900 meters in the valley jungle. Native to the Antilles, widely planted in tropical and subtropical regions. There are two major categories of purple fruit and yellow fruit. Plant life of about 20 years, the economic life of 8 to 10 years in general.

Fruit can eat or make vegetables, feed. Medicine is excited, strong effect. Flesh and more juicy, add calcium bicarbonate and sugar, can be made of aromatic drinks, can also be used to add in other beverages to improve the quality of beverages. Seed oil, for food and soap, paint and so on. Flower large and beautiful, no scent, can be used for garden ornamental plants. In other areas outside of China, eggs have "fruit king", "cash cow" and other reputation.