Where is the specialty of Huangpi?

Huangpi fruit is a specialty of Guangxi.

Wampee is native to southern China, and has been cultivated in Taiwan Province Province, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, southern Guizhou, Yunnan and Jinsha River valley in Sichuan, and also introduced in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Huangpi Fruit is a local specialty of dongxing city, Fangchenggang City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Dongxing wampee is characterized by sweet and sour taste, rich juice, golden and smooth appearance. The fruit is a typical berry with translucent pulp and juicy taste, which tastes a bit like grapefruit. It is also a very popular variety.

There are many local varieties of Huangpi in China, many of which are synonyms. It is divided into two categories: sweet yellow skin and sour yellow skin. Sweet wampee is mostly used as fresh food, and sour wampee is used to process preserved fruit, juice and jam. Sweet yellow skin is the most famous kind of chicken heart. The fruit is big and thick, with 3-4 seeds in general, and there are also single-core strains. It is moderately sweet and sour, yellow and white, and looks like a chicken heart.

Morphological characteristics of wampee

The leaves of wampee are 5- 1 1 lobules, ovoid or ovoid-elliptic, often leaning to one side, 6-14cm long and 3-6cm wide, with a nearly round or wide wedge-shaped base, asymmetrical sides, wavy or shallowly crenate edges, and short and fine hairs in the midvein of the leaves; Petiole is 4-8 mm long.

Panicle terminal; The bud is spherical with five slightly convex longitudinal ridges; Calyx lobes broadly ovoid, about 65438 0 mm long, pubescent outside, petals oblong, about 5 mm long, short hairs on both sides or glabrous inside; Stamens 10, alternating in length, long as petals, filiform flowers, slightly wider lower part, not bent knees; The ovary is densely straight, the disk is small and the ovary stalk is short.

The fruit is round, ovoid or wide ovoid, with a length of 1.5-3cm and a width of 1-2cm, light yellow to dark yellow, with fine hairs, ivory pulp and translucent seeds 1-4. Cotyledons are dark green. The flowering period is April-May and the fruiting period is July-August. The flowering and fruiting stages of plants produced in Hainan are all 1-2 months earlier.