What is August melon?

August melon, also known as wild banana and August melon, is called "precocious fruit" by Chinese medicine. Different places have different names. For example, Fujian and other places call August melon "wax". It is the wild fruit of Akebia trifoliata of Ranunculaceae. It is named after the fruit ripens and cracks in August.

The banana-shaped fruit is rich in sugar, vitamin C and 12 amino acids, as well as valeric acid, methionine, isoleucine, phenylalanine, lysine and so on, which cannot be synthesized by human body. Sweet fruit, pollution-free green food, known as "native banana."

Distributed in Guizhou, Yunnan and Hunan. Among them, most of them are asbestos in Tongren, Qianxi, Zhangjiajie and Ya 'an in Sichuan. In August of the lunar calendar, melons are ripe, and there are abundant wild resources in the foothills and forest bushes such as Suoxiyu and Yang Jiajie.

Extended data

Several August melon flowers form umbrella racemes;

The total pedicel is slender and the length is 65438 03.5 (5) cm. Several pedicels are clustered in leaf axils, and the base is covered by wide oval to nearly round bud scales.

Male flowers: green and white, outer sepals oblong, length 12 15 mm, width 45 mm, blunt tip, narrow inside, oblong-lanceolate, sharp tip; Petals are small, obovate and less than 65438 0 mm long; Stamens are about 65438 02 mm long, filaments are linear, about 7 mm long, slightly thicker, anthers are about 5 mm long, with short convex heads at the top, small degenerated carpels and oval cones, about 65438 0.5 mm long.

Female flower: purple, outer sepal oval, about 22 mm long and 78 mm wide, inner sepal narrow and short; The staminodes are small and the anthers are rod-shaped. Petals are small; Carpels oblong or conical, stigma sessile, oblique.

The fruit of August melon is berry-shaped, irregular rectangular or oval, green when young and reddish purple when mature.

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