There is a native thing called "girl" in the northeast. What is its scientific name?

Scientific name: sour berry, often called golden berry in English, also called Peruvian sour pulp. "Girl" is also called Ziwei, but it is not a European gooseberry. The origin of "Girl" is mainly distributed in the northeast of China.

Bottle fruit, which refers to European gooseberry and deciduous shrub, has sweet and sour fruit flavor and can be processed into sauce and brewed into wine. It is a kind of precious wild fruit, the fruit is spherical, and it is named the skeleton of the lantern because of the longitudinal stripes on the fruit.

Main value:

1, sour plum, also known as red mushroom Niang, hanging golden lamp, northeast girl, etc. It is a perennial herb of Solanaceae. There are two kinds of fruits, wild and cultivated, which can be eaten raw or cooked.

2. Sour fruit contains protein, fat, sugar, vitamins, minerals, sour fruit, etc. Sour fruit tastes sweet and sour, and has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials and diuresis.

Extended data:

Regarding the name "girl", Li Shizhen made a textual research: "Beggar girl is the fault of melon sac, the pronunciation of ancient melon aunt is the same, and the voice of mother sac is similar." But this is an isolated evidence, which seems unreliable and can only be heard. The only similar description is Zhu Yun's "Herbal Medicine for Disaster Relief": "The girl's food ... is like a bag, like a wild watermelon. "This is also the earliest record of this name.

There are about 75-90 species of Physalis, most of which are from America, and at least 46 of them are endemic to Mexico. Originated in high altitude areas of Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. The fruit of this variety is yellow when it is ripe, and the coat of lanterns is usually withered and looks like papyrus when it comes to market.

Peel off the calyx and let the berries pop between your teeth. The taste is similar to a small tomato but slightly tough, but it is closer to strawberry or pineapple, and sometimes it has a layer of cream flavor. This species was introduced to China in the late Ming Dynasty. Because of its tolerance to drought and barrenness, it quickly spread to other places and even fled to the wild.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-sour plum

Baidu Encyclopedia-Maiden (Lantern Fruit)