What is the scientific name of goat milk fruit?

Sheep's milk is known as Elaeagnus, also known as Elaeagnus, Banhanchun, Luduzi, Sparrow crisp, Sweet Bar, Milk Root, Stone Roller, four dates, half Chunzi, Persimmon Mould, March Jujube, Sheep Milk, Niu Grandma, etc., which is an evergreen upright shrub. Generally used for fruit food, there are two varieties, one tastes sweeter, the other fruit shape is smaller, and the small fruit type is still wild on the mountain.

Goat milk fruit 3-4 m tall, spiny, terminal or axillary, 20-40 mm long, sometimes shorter, dark brown. Young branches oblate-rhombic, densely covered with rust-colored scales, old branches scales deciduous, black, glossy. Leaves leathery, elliptic or broadly elliptic, sparse moment orbicular, 5 × 10 cm long and 1.8 × 5 cm wide, both ends obtuse or base rounded, margin slightly revolute or wrinkled, with silvery white and a few brown scales when young, glabrescent after maturity, glossy, brownish green or brown after drying, densely covered with silvery white and a few brown scales below, with white filamentous cotton hairs in the kernel. The flowering period is from September to December, and the fruiting period is from April to June in the following year.

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. Shade tolerance is general, like high temperature, humid climate, its salt resistance, drought resistance and cold resistance are good, wind resistance is strong. Born in mountain trees and beside Xiangyang valleys. Or cultivated.

Goat milk fruit is born on Xiangyang hillside or roadside below 1000 meters above sea level. it is mainly produced in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Guizhou, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places, as well as in Japan. Roots, leaves and fruits are used for medicine, but also have a certain ornamental value, the main chemical components of the fruit are volatile oil, terpenoids, alkaloids, flavonoids and so on. The pharmacological activities are mainly hypoglycemic, hypolipidemic, anti-lipid oxidation, anti-inflammatory and analgesic, immune and so on.