Honeysuckle blossoms several times a year

Honeysuckle is white at first, and then turns yellow. It has unique medicinal value and has been used by human beings since ancient times. How many times a year does honeysuckle bloom?

Honeysuckle blossoms several times a year

Honeysuckle blossoms several times a year is related to the variety. For example, wild honeysuckle generally blossoms once a year, while most artificially cultivated high-yielding varieties can bloom 3-5 times a year. The flowering time is usually from April to October, and the picking time is also from April to October.

Second, how to pick honeysuckle

1. The main purpose of picking honeysuckle is to pick its buds, and the efficacy of open flowers has been reduced. Choose larger buds, the flowers are blue and white, the buds should be clean, no young buds, no leaves.

2. Honeysuckle is best picked from 9 am to 12:00 or after 4 pm. It is not suitable to pick honeysuckle in the morning with dew or on rainy days. In the morning, honeysuckle is not fully open, with sufficient nutrients, strong aroma and high quality; while honeysuckle has opened around noon, its quality will become worse, secondly, the quality of flowers picked in rainy days is poor, difficult to dry, and the processing rate is low.

3. The picked honeysuckle should be dried in the sun. Put it in a cool place and don't expose it to the sun.

4. The sun-dried honeysuckle is preserved in vacuum packaging and placed in a cool and dry place.

Honeysuckle can clear heat and detoxification, can treat sore throat and other thermal venereal diseases, interested friends might as well make a cup of honeysuckle tea for themselves.