What is the scientific name of goat milk fruit? What are the planting conditions?

Goat milk fruit is a local specialty of Dehong City, Yunnan Province. Goat milk fruit is the mature fruit of Elaeagnus mandshurica, a member of the family Elaeagnaceae. Perennial evergreen climbing plant, ripe fruit bright red to purplish red, fresh fruit raw food, edible part accounts for 91%, sweet and sour, moderate delicious, sufficient water, bright color, can be used as fruit juice, canned, candied fruit. What is the scientific name of goat milk fruit? What are the planting conditions?

What is the scientific name of goat milk fruit?

Goat milk fruit is also known as cow lice fruit, goat milk tree, goat nipple, sour and sweet, generally eaten in addition to raw, pickled with salt and chili. If the fruit Dan is made from sugar, it will be delicious. Goat milk fruit has been cultivated now, and most of it used to be wild. Goat milk fruit cultivation can be seeded or cuttage, relatively easy to grow.

Second, what are the planting conditions of goat milk fruit?

The goat milk fruit has strong cold resistance, can survive the winter in the open field in the south of North China, can endure the absolute low temperature of minus 8 ℃, the suitable temperature for growth is 24-34 ℃, and it can withstand high temperature and extreme heat. Although the country of origin grows under the sparse forest on the hillside and in the shady valley, it is not afraid of sun exposure and has strong shade tolerance. It is not strict with the soil, can grow on neutral, acidic and calcareous soil, and is resistant to drought and barren, but not to waterlogging.

1. Sowing: every year in mid-May and late May, the fruits will be collected and piled up. After a period of ripe self-decay, the seeds will be washed and sown immediately. The seed germination rate is only about 50%, so we should appropriately increase the sowing amount, adopt the trenching strip sowing method, the row spacing is 15-20 cm, the soil thickness is 1.5 cm, and cover grass after sowing to preserve soil moisture. After sowing, it has entered summer, and the temperature is high, so it can all come out in more than a month. We should immediately set up a shed for shade, top dressing twice in that year, transplant seedlings in the early spring of the next year, and then come out of the nursery after 1-2 years of cultivation.

2. Cuttage: the cuttings of Sheep Milk are mostly carried out in early April, and the full 1-and 2-year-old branches are cut into sections 12-15 cm long, leaving 1-2 leaves and 5-7 cm deep in the soil. If the cuttage in the open field seedling bed needs to set up a shed for shade, it should be maintained under the shade shed when the pot is planted, and it can take root in about 2 months. It can continue to cultivate large seedlings in the open field seedling bed, or it can be cultivated in the pot.

3. Afforestation: goat milk fruit has strong adaptability to the environment, small crown, suitable for close planting, generally 1 × 1.5 meters, 6000cm 7500 plants per hectare, dig a planting pit with a diameter and depth of 60cm and 80cm before planting, use farm manure as base fertilizer and water thoroughly after planting seedlings.

4. Management: in the year of sheep milk fruit planting, weeding and topdressing fertilizer should be timely to promote the growth of seedlings, and then ploughing and weeding once or twice a year. After the forest is formed, the overdense branches can be cut off every autumn, which can be managed according to the arbuscular tree shape, cut off the drooping branches and tillering strips, keep ventilated and transparent, and enter the fruiting period after 3 years.