Where can I plant the "tofu tree" of Tiger skin Nanke? What are the planting prospects?

Tofu tree is a kind of tree under the family Polygonaceae. It is born in hillsides, under forests, forest margins, roadsides, barren mountains and shrubs, and is most suitable for slightly acidic to acidic soils, distributed in southwest China, mostly in northeastern Guizhou. So where can I plant tofu trees? What are the planting prospects?

Where can I plant tofu trees?

Growing environment

It is born in hillside, under forest, forest edge, roadside, barren mountain shrub, and is most suitable for slightly acidic to acidic soil.

Distribution range

It is distributed in the southwest, mostly in the northeast of Guizhou.

Planting prospect of bean curd tree

The tofu tree is planted for one year and benefits for many years. Bare-root seedlings should be planted every year in autumn and winter or before the tofu trees sprout in early spring; if they are bagged seedlings, they can be planted all the year round. Plant about 2000 plants per mu.

Tofu tree has exuberant growth, high number and yield, generally about 10 branches, 600,800kg fresh leaves per mu and 3000 kg of processed green tofu.

Production method: pick the tender branches and leaves, wash them and pour them into clean water, knead them with your hands to form a paste, and then filter out the leaf residue with a clean cloth. Then take appropriate amount of plant ash, mix it evenly with water, and filter it into ash water. Pour the gray water into the leaf juice and stir it with chopsticks. The leaf juice gradually thickens and solidifies, and the tofu is made. The tofu tree is dark green and vaguely transparent. Can cook, the entrance is smooth and soft, fragrant and cool, it is also a good product for heat prevention and cooling.

The roots, stems and leaves of tofu tree can be used as medicine, with bitter cold, non-toxic taste, heat-clearing and detoxification, detumescence and hemostasis, and can treat snakebite, nameless swelling, traumatic bleeding, dysentery, scald and other diseases. The results showed that tofu root extract significantly inhibited toe swelling and prostaglandin E2 production induced by carrageenan in rats, and had significant anti-inflammatory effect, and also enhanced the phagocytosis of macrophages and lymphocyte proliferation in experimental mice. enhance the non-specific immunity of the body. The extract of stem and leaf of tofu tree has the effect of anti-fatigue and lowering cholesterol. The decoction of tofu tree has a strong inhibitory effect on pathogenic bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus and Shigella dysenteriae.

The technological process of pectin extraction from tofu tree mainly includes raw material pretreatment, extraction, filtration, decolorization, concentration and spray drying. Moreover, the content of peroxidase in tofu leaves is 8 times higher than that of horseradish, which is of high value in chemical industry.