Papaya Hawthorn

Papaya -- Hawthorn

FructusChaenomelisSinensis

Chinese flowering quince fruit

[alias] Chaenomeles glauca and Chaenomeles vernalis.

[source] it is the fruit of Chaenomeles sinensis (Thouin) Koehne.

[plant morphology] deciduous shrub or small tree, up to 7 m high, with spinless branches and yellowish pubescence on young branches. The leaves are alternate, elliptic ovate or oblong, 5-8cm long and 2.5-6cm wide, with spiny awn shaped serrations on the edge, glandular spots on the tooth tip, villi when young, flowers solitary in leaf axils; sepals 5; petals 5, light red; stamens numerous; ovary inferior, 5-locular, style 3-5, base connate, pilose. Pear fruit is oblong, up to 15cm long, dark yellow, woody and fragrant. The flowering period is from April to May and the fruiting period is from September to October.

It is commonly cultivated in different places. It is mainly produced in Shaanxi, Shandong, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hubei, Jiangxi and Guangxi.

[picking] in summer and autumn, the fruits are picked when they are green and yellow, and then they are cut lengthwise, scalded in boiling water and dried in the sun.

[character] the fruit is long oval or oval, with 2-4 petals, 4-9cm in length and 3.5-4.5cm in width. The outer surface is reddish brown or brown, smooth without wrinkles, or slightly rough; the section pulp is rough and granular. Seeds numerous, dense, usually mostly deciduous. Seeds flat triangular. It is slightly sour and astringent, and has a sense of sand.

[chemical composition] it contains malic acid, pectinic acid, tartaric acid, saponin, flavone, etc.; the seed contains hydrocyanic acid.

[nature and taste] it is warm in nature and sour and astringent in taste.

[indications] Shujin Huoluo, Hewei Huashi. Indications: rheumatic arthralgia, bacillary dysentery, vomiting and diarrhea.

Chinese PinYin : Mu Gua Ming Zha