Yangmei introduction

Myrica rubra evergreen trees, the tree height 15 meters above, DBH 60 cm above; Bark gray, longitudinal shallow crack when old; The crown is spherical. Branchlets and buds are glabrous, lenticels are usually few and inconspicuous, and only round and peltate glands are attached when they are young.

Flowers dioecious. Male inflorescences solitary or clustered in leaf axils, cylindrical, 1-3 cm long, usually unbranched, spicate, with inconspicuous short branches at the base and sterile bracts at the base. Pregnant bracts are suborbicular, entire, abaxially glabrous and covered only by glands.

The drupe is spherical with papillae on the outer surface, with a diameter of 1- 1.5 cm, and the cultivated variety can reach about 3 cm. Exocarp is fleshy, juicy, resinous, sweet and sour in taste, and dark red or purplish red at maturity.

Extended data:

Yangmeixi acid soil is native to the hillside or valley forest at an altitude of 125- 1500m in temperate and subtropical humid climate zones in China, mainly distributed in the south of the Yangtze River basin and the north of Hainan Island.

That is, from 20 degrees north latitude to 3 1 degree north latitude, it is similar to citrus, loquat, tea tree and bamboo, but its cold resistance is stronger than that of citrus and loquat.

Myrica rubra is distributed in Yunnan, Guizhou, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Fujian, Guangdong, Hunan, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Anhui, Taiwan Province and other provinces in China. It is cultivated in a small amount abroad, such as Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asian countries, such as India, Myanmar, Vietnam and the Philippines.