What kind of fruit is this? Can I eat?

Changjiang Daily-Changjiang. com 165438+ 10/5 (Reporter Chen Qixiong) On the beach near Nan 'ankou, Hanyang, there are several branches with small fruits in the shape of lanterns. 1October 1 12 night, the netizen "salt pig" saw this scene and asked curiously: Can this fruit be eaten?

Lantern-shaped fruit that netizens saw in Nan 'ankou. Photo by netizen "Salt Pig"

In an interview with Changjiang, "Salt Pig" said that she was a plant photographer. In the evening, when she took her camera to the south bank to find the shooting target, she accidentally saw "small lanterns" hanging on the branches of several plants. She remembers that when she was a child, she and her playmates often took these little lanterns off as ornaments and "strung them together as earrings".

In each small lantern, there is a round fruit hidden. She wants to know whether this kind of fruit can be eaten or not, and what is the difference between it and the gourd sold in the fruit shop? To this end, Changjiang reporter interviewed Dong, a senior engineer of Wuhan Academy of Landscape Sciences.

Lantern-shaped fruit that netizens saw in Nan 'ankou. Photo by netizen "Salt Pig"

Dong said that in China, the fruit of gourd, also known as girl, is actually the general name of seven or eight species of Physalis in Solanaceae, and most of its stems, leaves and fruits contain toxic substances and cannot be eaten.

The gourd fruits we saw in the market, such as Miss Huang and Miss Hong, are all artificially cultivated fruits. You can eat it when it is ripe, and it tastes similar to tomatoes, but you can't eat it when it is not ripe, because it contains more toxic alkaloids.

Lantern-shaped fruit that netizens saw in Nan 'ankou. Photo by netizen "Salt Pig"

Dong said that the lantern-shaped fruit seen in Nan 'anzui should be the fruit of Sophora alopecuroides, a wild plant of Solanaceae, which belongs to a poisonous "girl" and can't be eaten whether it is mature or not.

Dong reminded everyone that for the sake of safety, citizens and friends had better not pick wild fruits to eat. Because the fruits of plants growing in the wild may contain toxins themselves, or they may have been polluted by toxic substances.