Can cherry blossoms still bear cherries when they are withered?

I tell you through a children's bedtime story.

Cherry blossoms and cherries do not know each other.

When spring comes, Tigress's parents invite Qiu Qiu, Xiaogang and Yue Yue to enjoy the flowers in the Sakura Garden. Far away, they saw white, red and pink cherry blossoms, and the children rushed forward with joy.

The cherry blossom garden is crowded with people, and everyone is busy looking for a suitable position to take pictures as a souvenir. Tigress, who likes to be a "model", pulls Qiu Qiu and keeps posing for her parents to take pictures. Xiaogang also wants to be a photographer. He took the camera from his mother and kept pressing the shutter on them. At this time, a naughty boy wanted to take a photo with Hua. He jumped a few times, but still couldn't reach the cherry blossoms. He simply crossed the guardrail and prepared to climb to the cherry tree to pick it. When his parents saw it, they stopped it and told him not to do it.

Qiu Qiu said, "It's a good thing he didn't pick cherry blossoms, otherwise he wouldn't bear cherries in autumn." Yue Yue also said, "I like to eat cherries. If there are no cherry blossoms, only leaves are left, how can I grow cherries! "

After hearing what they said, Xiaogang said, "You two are wrong. Cherry ripens in summer, and apples and pears ripen in autumn. I ate a lot of cherries last summer. "

Tigress came up to them and said, "My father told me that cherry blossoms have nothing to do with the cherries we eat." Qiu Qiu, Yue Yue and Xiao Gang were all very surprised. Before Tigress finished, they all said in unison, "Impossible, impossible, you are mistaken. Cherry is the fruit of cherry blossoms! "

So, is cherry the fruit of cherry tree? In fact, the cherry we eat is really not the fruit of the cherry tree. Cherry blossoms bloom and fall at the same time. It takes about 7 days from opening to withering, and it takes about 16 days for the whole cherry tree to bloom to wither completely. Cherry blossoms can bear fruit after flowering, but they are not cherries, but small black fruits.

The fruit of the cherry tree, that is, the cherry we usually eat, can be eaten as fruit, and its maturity is from mid-May to mid-June every year. Cherry has bright appearance, thin and juicy skin, sweet and slightly sour taste, and contains a lot of trace elements such as iron, so it has high nutritional value.

Now, son, you are "awesome" because you know, the cherry we eat is not the fruit of the cherry tree. Next time you eat cherries, remember to ask your friends around you to see if they can know this "secret"?