This flower is fragrant and beautiful. It can be eaten as a wild vegetable. It is called the flower of Dragon Boat Festival. Do you know it?

At the beginning of June, the weather was cool in the north, but it was already sweaty in the south of the Yangtze River. In order to avoid the hot sun, people will choose to go out early in the morning to buy vegetables. With the Dragon Boat Festival coming soon, vendors in the vegetable market also began to sell a kind of fragrant flower, which is not only fragrant, but also can be eaten as a wild vegetable, but most people do not know that it can be eaten. Because this kind of flower usually blooms around the Dragon Boat Festival, the folk also call it "the flower of the Dragon Boat Festival". Do you know it?

This kind of flower is gardenia, which is called "summer three white" with white orchid and jasmine, all of which are overflowing with the same fragrance. In southern cities, you can often see vendors selling these flowers along the street, and there are many people who buy them. In this "three whites", gardenia is the shortest florescence, the strongest season of flowers, flowering period is only about a month, and then withered. It is more popular because it happens to be held during the Dragon Boat Festival, a traditional festival. Whenever I see gardenia in the street, I know that Dragon Boat Festival is coming, with delicious zongzi and dragon boat races.

In the southern countryside, women will "hairpin" around the Dragon Boat Festival, will be in full bloom gardenia in their hair, the whole person will be bathed in the fragrance, wherever they go with their own fragrance. The fragrance of gardenia not only smells good, but also has a certain mosquito repellent effect, at this time is the growing season of mosquitoes and flies, wearing gardenia mosquito repellent is a good way. In addition to hairpin flowers, more people choose to put gardenia indoors, bringing a room full of fragrance, which is easier to use than air freshener. But for foodies, what they care about most is whether they can eat.

The answer is yes, it's edible, and it tastes good. The petals of Gardenia jasminoides are fleshy and have many edible parts, which can not only be fried, but also can be eaten cold, fried, stewed, honey-stained and tea-brewed. Moderate consumption can clear away heat and reduce fire, purge lung heat and relieve cough. Gardenia can be regarded as a kind of wild vegetable, which can be fried with meat, eggs and other vegetables after passing through it in boiling water before cooking. After cooking, the gardenia tastes fresh and tender, with a delicate flavor, and it is good to taste fresh once in a while.

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