When do cherry trees usually bloom?

The flowering of cherry blossoms is greatly influenced by the climate, usually in March and April in the solar calendar in the north and in January and February in the south. The whole flowering period is about 10 days.

Cherry (scientific name: Cerasus pseudocerasus) is a general term for some plum plants, including subgenus Prunus, subgenus Prunus, subgenus Rosaceae and so on. Trees, 2-6 meters high, with gray bark. Branchlets grayish brown, shoots green, glabrous or sparsely pilose. Winter buds ovate, glabrous.

Fruit can be eaten as fruit, with bright color, crystal beauty, red as agate, and yellow if frozen. Fruit is rich in sugar, protein, vitamins, calcium, iron, phosphorus, potassium and other elements.

Edible

Properties: sweet and sour, slightly warm in nature. Can benefit the spleen and stomach, nourish the liver and kidney, astringent essence and stop diarrhea.

Ingredients: sugar, citric acid, tartaric acid, carotene, vitamin C, iron, calcium, phosphorus and other ingredients.

Usage: used for spleen and stomach weakness, diarrhea due to lack of food, or spleen and stomach yin injury and dry mouth; Deficiency of liver and kidney, weakness of waist and knees, weakness of limbs, or nocturnal emission; Refractory spots such as blood deficiency, dizziness, palpitation, dull complexion and facial freckles can play a role in desalination.

Usage: Raw food, decoction, soaking in wine, or clothes soaked with honey.

The content of iron in cherry is high, and the iron content per100g of cherry is as high as 59 mg, ranking first among fruits. Vitamin A content is 4-5 times more than that of grapes, apples and oranges. The carotene content is 4 ~ 5 times higher than that of grapes, apples and oranges. In addition, cherries also contain vitamins B and C and mineral elements such as calcium and phosphorus. Every 100g contains 83g of water, 0.4g of protein/kloc-0, 0.3g of fat, 8g of sugar, 0.4g of carbohydrate/kloc-0, 66kcal of heat, 0.4g of crude fiber, 0.5g of ash, 5.9mg of calcium/kloc-0, and 0.4g of phosphorus/kloc-0.

Cherry can relieve anemia. Iron is the raw material for synthesizing human hemoglobin, which is of great significance to women. According to the World Health Organization, about 50% girls, 20% adult women and 40% pregnant women will suffer from iron deficiency anemia.

In addition, although cherries are good, be careful not to eat too much. Because it contains not only iron, but also a certain amount of cyanoside, if eaten too much, it will cause iron poisoning or cyanide poisoning.