When do Japanese apricot flowers bloom?
Today, I will explain to netizens when Japanese apricot flowers bloom and introduce the topic of flowers and plants for enjoying the blooming period of Japanese apricot flowers. It's a great piece of knowledge, so I recommend saving it for future reference!
Plum rain, plum rain, the season of Japanese apricot ripening!
Growing in Jiangnan, which is also a region abundant in Japanese apricots, every year during the plum rain season, Japanese apricots are naturally eaten in abundance.
The most memorable thing about Japanese apricots is still a text from elementary school about eating Japanese apricots. It was so sweet at the time that I couldn't stop eating, but the next day, my teeth were so sore that I couldn't even bite into tofu. So when it comes to Japanese apricots, I always want to eat them, but I'm also shy, just tasting a few and not daring to eat more.
In the early summer evening, walking with the children and the dog in the community, the cool air was filled with the sweet fragrance of magnolia flowers and the delicate scent of Chinese scholar trees. Loquats are already out of season, and I can see the shriveled fruits on the ground, and the green unripe plums on the trees are also unharvested, hanging with a lot of fruits. Turning the corner, I saw a girl picking Japanese apricots, her hands full of bright red. Only then did I notice that several Japanese apricot trees were full of fruits, most of them still pink and unripe, with a few already red. The girl said, "They're very sweet!" She handed me one, which was still a bit sour.
Japanese apricot flowers are not conspicuous, hidden densely among green leaves.
I remember going to pick Japanese apricots with a group of old classmates in Wuxi's Mashan Longtoushu during the previous year. The weather was hot and humid, typical of the Jiangnan plum rain climate. Going into the mountains, there were Japanese apricot trees everywhere, with lush green leaves and densely hanging attractive red fruits, which immediately made people forget the heat. I couldn't help but pick and eat them. The ripe Japanese apricots just picked from the trees tasted wonderful, with a fresh sweet flavor and almost no sourness. Carelessly, the juice of the Japanese apricot splashed on my pants, and a drop of bright red immediately spread out. Eating too many Japanese apricots still made my teeth sore.
The fruit ripening season is from June to July, which is the plum rain season in Jiangnan.
Japanese apricots are delicious and have high nutritional value, rich in vitamin C, glucose, fructose, citric acid, and other nutrients. Additionally, Japanese apricots are rich in potassium, which can help replenish potassium for those who sweat a lot in the summer. In terms of food properties, Japanese apricots are warm and sour in taste, entering the lung and stomach meridians, with the effects of generating saliva and quenching thirst, harmonizing the stomach and aiding digestion, stopping vomiting, and stopping dysentery.
When do Japanese apricot flowers bloom?
Although fresh Japanese apricots are good, I dare not eat too many, not only because they make my teeth sour, but I'm always troubled by the worms inside. Japanese apricot worms are actually fruit fly larvae, which usually feed on honey and fruits. During the breeding season, they are attracted to the smell of Japanese apricots and lay eggs on their surface. After the fruit fly eggs hatch into larvae, they bore into the fruit flesh and feed on it.
This type of small white worm inside Japanese apricots can be made to crawl out by soaking in salt water. Li Bai has a poem about Japanese apricots: "The flat-headed slave swings a big fan, not hot in May,怀疑 it's a cool autumn. A jade plate of Japanese apricots is set for you, the salt from Wu is as white as snowflakes" ("Liangyuan Ode"). Why mention salt when writing about Japanese apricots? I always think that Li Bai also soaked Japanese apricots in salt water before eating them.
Many people don't mind that Japanese apricot worms are relatively clean and harmless to humans, and some even say they are high-quality protein and contain antimicrobial peptides. Eating them can enhance a person's immunity. However, I'm still troubled by the thought of eating Japanese apricots and accidentally ingesting a few worms. Every year, friends send Japanese apricots over, and although the fresh fruit looks delicious and I can't help but eat a few, I still put it down. However, fresh Japanese apricots are very perishable and need to be eaten quickly; otherwise, after just one or two days, the Japanese apricots start to turn black, the small worms come out, and the taste becomes stale.