It is one of the oldest fruits in the world. It was once a tribute cooked before it could be eaten by an old farmer.

The year comes to August and September, and this time begins to show the unique scenery of the year. The mountains and fields of fruit press down the branches, the fruit aroma is wanton, wonderful, and this time is a good time to taste fresh. Pear is the name of old Beijing, it actually has the meaning of sweet and sour, its real name is Muli, is one of our ancient tree species in Xinjiang. It is different from the ordinary pear, the taste is not very sweet, and some sour taste, much worse than the ordinary pear taste, but it is our country's feudal society period tribute, ordinary people have not eaten, also have not seen wooden pear.

Muli is a small tree of the Rosaceae. It blossoms in April and May every year, and its fruit is in August and September. The fruit is like a pear, yellow and full of fragrance. It is mainly distributed in Xinjiang, Jiangsu, Northeast and other places in China, and it is also one of the ancient tree species in Europe, Central Asia and other places. Therefore, wooden pear has become one of the oldest fruits in the world. Nowadays, it is used as a grafting rootstock for many kinds of fruit trees, mainly for grafting fruit trees of Rosaceae, such as western pear. Like the sun can also withstand semi-overcast, extremely adaptable, cold-resistant, generally not picky where can survive, good soil drainage, fruit can not only be eaten as fruit, but also can be used as medicine.

The fruit of wooden pear can be used as medicine, and has a long history for reference. The medicine needs to be dried in the shade, and its nature is sweet and sour and warm. It can dispel dampness and relieve summer heat, activate collaterals and meridians, and is often eaten as a health-preserving dessert in the ancient court. It has a good effect on vomiting, diarrhea, poor appetite and so on. There is also wood pear bark medicine, the whole year can be harvested, only has the effect of collecting dampness and sores, into the medicine to take fresh wood pear bark, and then mashed and applied to the sore, with a certain effect.

In addition, because the wooden pear taste is unique, the fragrance is unusual, fresh and pleasant, so many foreign people will put the wooden pear in the cabinet, use as the pure natural air purifier. As a fruit, wooden pear tastes very bad and is full of dregs, but it is a good fruit for making soup. So it is cooked to eat, add some syrup honey, unique flavor, mild nature, so pregnant women, children, physical deficiency, sub-health and other people can eat.

Now this kind of old fruit can not be seen in many places, and only some old farmers have eaten it before. Friends, have you ever eaten wooden pear?