The local people commonly call it tenglizi. The fruit wall is brown and the meat is light green. The nutrition value of it is rather high. The content of vitamins in it is 6 to 8 times of that of oranges. Besides, it can cure various diseases. It tastes sour and has cold property. The main roles of it are to waste thirst, cure toxic heat, help digestion, cure diarrhoea and stranguria caused by the passage of urinary stone as well as liver inflammation. It is mature in the period from early period o August and late period of October and tastes better after frosting. |