Can the fruit of water chestnut be eaten?

Fruit can not be eaten, but it can be used as medicine, and branches and leaves can also be used as medicine to treat diseases such as joint muscle rheumatism and gingival bleeding.

Water chestnut is full of white flowers in early summer and red fruits in autumn, like a huge red umbrella, dotted with lawns. Against the backdrop of green leaves, white flowers and red fruits are gorgeous and lovely, and they are good shrubs for viewing flowers and fruits. Eleocharis tuberosa should be planted on the edge of lawn, the corner of garden road and sloping land, which is a good landscaping tree species.

Eleocharis tuberosa is an excellent ornamental tree species in the eastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and it is also an important tree species for soil and water conservation and water conservation. Wood is hard and elastic, which is a good material for local small farm tools; Branches, leaves and fruits can be used as medicine, which is mainly used to treat joint muscle rheumatism, gingival bleeding and other diseases. ?

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Water chestnut purple fruit variety

The fruit is purple-black, smaller and 5-6 mm in diameter. Distributed in China, western Sichuan and northwestern Yunnan. It grows in forest margins, streams or bushes at an altitude of 2500-3 100 meters.

Large-fruit water chestnut variety

The leaves are larger and narrower than the above varieties, with a length of 2.5-4.5cm, a width of1.5-2.6cm, many fruits and a diameter of1-1.2cm.. Distributed in China, Shaanxi, Gansu and Sichuan. It grows in the hillside forest at an altitude of 1600-2 100 meters. ?

growing environment

Strong water chestnut, cold-resistant, light-loving, slightly shade-tolerant, lax in soil requirements, extremely resistant to drought and barren; Like well-drained soil, wet and flooded soil usually leads to root rot and death. Water chestnut grows in ravines and hillside miscellaneous forests at an altitude of 1200-3500m. ?

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