Plant profile:
1. Loquat is an evergreen arbor plant belonging to the genus Loquat, Apple subfamily of Rosaceae. Its branchlets are stout, with embroidered or grayish brown hairs, the leaves are oblanceolate, the petiole has grayish brown hairs, the panicle is terminal, the calyx tube is shallow cup-shaped, and the fruit is spherical or oblong. Loquat is one of the important fruit products in Chaozhou. The flowering period is 10 ~ 12, and the fruiting period is from May to June. Loquat was first seen in Putian County Records. It is mature in early summer, yellow in color and sour in taste, so it is named because its leaves look like pipa.
2. Loquat is native to China, Sichuan and Hubei, and now it is distributed in the south of the Yangtze River basin, and is mostly cultivated in low hills and plains. Loquat is suitable for warm and humid climate, which requires high temperature, salt tolerance and good drainage during its growth and development, and is rich in humus in medium or acidic soil. The propagation methods of loquat include seed propagation, cutting propagation and grafting propagation.
3. Loquat is nutritious and can be eaten as a fruit, which has the functions of quenching thirst, moistening dryness, clearing away lung heat and relieving cough. In Compendium of Materia Medica, it is recorded that loquat leaves are thin in gas and strong in taste, and the yang is the yin, which is used to treat lung and stomach diseases. Loquat leaves can also be used to treat stomach diseases. As early as the Western Han Dynasty, China began to plant loquat, and in the Tang Dynasty, loquat became extremely common. Bai Juyi wrote a song that Huai Shan awarded Chu Jiangyang, and loquat was full of forests in May, which was about loquat blooming species.
Second, the main value:
1, loquat leaves have the advantages of high efficiency and low toxicity in clinical application. Modern technology has separated many effective components from loquat leaves, such as volatile oil such as neroli and Arabic gum alcohol, tartaric acid, ursolic acid, oleanolic acid, amygdalin, tannin, B vitamins, vitamin C, sorbitol and so on. The pharmacological effects and good clinical effects of the effective components of loquat leaves have attracted wide attention.
2. Loquat is a beautiful fruit tree with soft and juicy flesh and delicious taste. It ripens in early summer and is in the off-season of fresh fruit, so it is very popular with consumers. Loquat can be made into canned food, preserved fruit, fruit paste, fruit wine, beverage and so on.