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A Green Plant Suitable for Indoor Planting--Fortune Tree

Published: 2024-11-22 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/11/22, Melon chestnut, also known as fortune tree, small trees, 4-5 meters high, loose crown, young branches chestnut brown, glabrous. Leaves of fortune tree with short stalk or subsessile. Flowers solitary; branches apical; pedicels stout, yellow stellate pubescent, deciduous; calyx cup-shaped,...

Melon chestnut, also known as rich tree, small tree, 4-5 meters high, crown is loose, young branches chestnut brown, glabrous.

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Leaflets shortly stipitate or subsessile. Flowers solitary branch apical leaf axil; pedicel stout, yellow stellate velutinous, deciduous; calyx cup-shaped, subleathery; petals yellowish green, narrowly lanceolate to linear, upper part revolute; staminal tube shorter, filaments with staminal tube 13-15 cm long, lower yellow, turning red upward, anthers narrowly linear, arcuate; style longer than stamens, crimson. Capsule subpear-shaped, pericarp thick, woody, a few yellowish brown, outside glabrous, inner surface densely woolly, dehiscent, numerous seeds per locule. Seeds large, irregularly trapezoid-cuneate, dark brown epidermis, white threaded, containing polyembryos. During the flowering period from May to November, the fruit matured successively and the seeds germinated naturally after falling to the ground.

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Originally from Central America, Mexico to Costa Rica. Cultivated in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China.

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Melon chestnut plant shape is beautiful, stem leaves are green all year round, is a very popular indoor foliage plant, seedling branches are soft, resistant to pruning, can be processed into a variety of artistic pile and bonsai. Street trees and scenic trees are often used in the south.

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Edible:

The pericarp can be eaten when it is not ripe, and the seeds can be fried.

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Economy:

It has developed rapidly in China's flower market since 2006. During festivals, hotels, restaurants, businesses and citizens scramble to buy more for good luck.

 
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