What is a chicken claw pear?

Chicken claw pear scientific name Fructus Aurantii, also known as pepper, jujube, Linqin, Wanzi pear, longevity fruit, etc., belongs to Rhamnaceae trifoliate pear woody deciduous trees, born in sunny slopes, valleys, ditches and roadsides or cultivation, mainly distributed in Shaanxi, Gansu, Jiangxi, Anhui, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Fujian, Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi, Sichuan, Chongqing, Guizhou, Yunnan and other provinces.

Chicken claw pear is more than 10 meters high, and the twigs, abaxial surface of young leaves, petiole and inflorescence axis are pubescent at first and then fall off. Leaf blade elliptic-ovate, broadly ovate or cordate-ovate. Cymes terminal and axillary, flowers small, yellowish green, petals oblate, style often divided to middle or parted. Fruit stalk fleshy, twisted, reddish brown, fruit subglobose, glabrous. The shape of the fruit is like ten thousand characters, so it is called longevity fruit. The flowering period is June and the fruiting period is from August to October.

The fruit of Jizhao pear has high utilization value, its hypertrophic peduncle, succulent, nutritious, and contains a variety of nutritional elements and ingredients. The glucose content is as high as 45% and the total amino acid content is 2.41% per 100 grams of fruit. 100g fresh weight contains 23 mg of vitamin C, 345.8 mg of acid, 1.22g of calcium, 0.31mg of protein, 3.47mg of iron, 0.8mg of phosphorus, 0.12mg of zinc, 0.74mg of copper and 0.2mg of manganese.

Chicken claw pear stalk contains a lot of glucose and potassium malate, sweet after frost, can be eaten raw or brewed wine, commonly known as "jujube". The fruit is used in medicine as a cool diuretic and can relieve alcohol. Jujube wine can cure rheumatism. The wood is of moderate hardness and beautiful texture, which is used for construction and furniture and art handicrafts. In traditional Chinese medicine, seeds and wood are used in medicine, which have the effects of clearing heat, diuresis and antidote. There are many interesting anecdotes about it in ancient books.

The chicken claw pear grows fast, the material is excellent, the tree height can reach 2025 meters. Its wood is purplish red, moderate hardness, beautiful texture and easy to process. it is not only a high-quality building material and interior decoration material, but also a good material for making fine furniture, art handicrafts, cars, boats, gun handles and so on. It is also an excellent new tree species for returning farmland to forest, western development, hilly barren and thin land resources development and modern greening.