waxberry season

Yuyao waxberry boasts of the largest cultivated area in China with longest history, as old as over 2000 years. And according to the archaeological discoveries in the Hemudu Site, which is inside the Yuyao area, there were uncultivated waxberry 7 thousand years ago. Presently, Yuyao has nearly 82,000 mou cultivated area of waxberry with annual production of about 20,000 tons, and there have been 19 towns of the city planting waxberry. And a lot of villages that are specialized in production of waxberry spring up, so all these helped Yuyao win the honor of “the world -renowned waxberry of Yuyao”. In June 1995, the Ministry of Agriculture named Yuyao as “hometown of China waxberry”. Yuyao waxberry has a lot of varieties, mainly including four major varieties of black, red, pink and white, among which the black “water chestnut” variety is the most well known and a most favored fruit in the country. This variety features round shape, small nutlet, the bright color and sweet taste. Agricultural technical personnel in Sanqishi town found a lot of old-aged waxberry woods around Shibu village; there are about 2000 trees with average age between 120 and 150 years old. Local government has established “old-aged waxberry scenic spot”. White waxberry mainly produced in Yaoxi Machu, Moushan are also well known, and its advantage is the fresh and sweet sour taste. And it normally comes into the market later than the water chestnut variety so as to prolong the marketing time of waxberry. When waxberry grows up every June, the “joyful tour in waxberry hometown” has attracted a lot of visitors inside and outside the province to gather around Yuyao. The tourists could taste waxberry here, and experience special local conditions and customs of waxberry hometown in China. so ningbo is famouse for its seafood as well as waxberry.by the way,which city do you live?

don't worry,my friend,i just searched it on internet and found those.coz i want to know is there any other palce suitable for planting wexberries.but seems only china plants it.

for me?i'm a northerner,and working at shanghai for not a long time,i don't have any other meaning of my words,thank you telling me so much history about waxberry.

Can you dry it or dehydrate it like other fruit? I guess freezing it is out of the question!

about every middle of june.there often rainy for many days in southeast china.we called the weather meirain season. after the rainy day,the waxberry will ripe. yes,it is very short days we can eat waxberry.about 15-30 days.waxberry is very very easy decay,the taste will change after even one day,so it can't be eat by other place people.i have heard a new method have been invent that this year. some waxberry in my city have been sold to france.it can be saved for about 10 days to perserve the taste.of course it will be transported by airplane.

Yes,it could be dried and processed,but it almost lose the original taste.as you can not have the feeling of sweet and acidity.It can not be freez,as this fruit have not the skin like others,it will be more delicious if you dip it in the solt water for a little while.

it belongs to arbutus and taste sweet.here is a picture. thanks for your attention.i'm fine.sichuan lies in the southwest of china,where is far away from my place.i live in ningbo,a eastern city near shanghai.

Waxberry is a evergreen fruit grown in the subtropical area. Its cultivating species also named as Deep-red (Zhu-hong) in Fujian province or Tree-berry (Shu-mei) in Taiwan province. It has a long-term cultivating history in China and a broad distribution in the provinces located in the south bank of Yangtze River. The total cultivation area of Waxberry in China is about 0.213 million hm2 and 1/5 is located in Zhejiang province (57,000 hm2). Waxberry is a unique cultivated fruit tree in China and international market. Waxberry planting plays positive effect on environment. So waxberry has become the first selecting fruit for the slope areas development. Its cultivation area has been extended year by year all over Zhejiang province. Because of poor management especially poor fertilization, waxberry yield in and fertilization efficient these regions is low.

Hey, hey, hey, I found it! Check out this link, it even tells you how to say it in Chinese, and that it is also called snowberry! yang mei, anyone? http://www.chinese-word.com/chinese/w/ww40.html

oh.. so it's snow berry.. hehe ^_^ It's rare in our country and i have not eaten it b4 too.. hehe

yes,it's called yang mei in chinese.it's fruit with sweet taste.

yes,waxberry is fruit.you can see many pictures of it i have pasted in this discussion.here is another one.it seems it's only produced in south china.

yes,waxberry is fruit.you can see many pictures of it i have pasted in this discussion.here is another one.it seems it's only produced in south china.

They look so nice why cant they be imported to the UK I would love to try them?

yes we have strawbwrry here.they are totally different from strawbwrries.they grow in the trees.here is a picture of wexberry tree.referring to the size,it's like a plum.

Thank you.

waxberry is a sweet fruit with a little acid.

sour wexberry is not good.the best one is sweet.hehe

usually,black wexberries are the best with sweet taste. welcome to mylot,mechell,wish you enjoy posting here.

same with you,when i thought that i feel sour in my mouth. lol

They seem almost like raspberries! I stayed at that site last night and learned more Chinese words! I wish I could taste some of those berries right now!

they taste sweet.i don't know whether they have any cousins.it seems most of you are unware of it. it's a kind of arbutus.here is a large picture.

i know raspberries and have tasted them.i'm sure they are different kinds of fruit.but indeed,compared to those fruits such as apple,pair,banana,watermelon,etc,they are more similar.here is a picture of raspberries.you can see they are different.raspberries have no stone in it.

yes it can be dehydrated to be preserved fruit,which can be kept for a long time.as we know,the fresh waxberry is easily getting badwithout the fridge in the summer.

are you sure it's $2/kg? if so cherry is so cheap in yantai.it's so expensive here that i can't afford it.

more or less.cherry is rare and expensive in my city.i wonder is it usual in your place? we all know it is called 'yang mei'in chinese and i hear that it can be only planted in south china.bayberry?i hear of it the first time.

right,we are all know that,and plant in south of China.whatever they been called in english. now i live in yantai ,there are many cherry trees here,so the price is just ok,$2/kg. Michael

of course i know yixing in jiangsu.it's not far away from ningbo.i wonder which city are you in now?

I am working in a hospital of zhenjiang now.