Lantern is a perennial shrub, usually about 1.2 m tall, with gray-black old branches, usually hairy on small branches, gray or gray-brown.Maidenhair is an erect herbaceous plant, generally about 50-80 cm in height, the stem on the ground is generally unbranched, the stem node is very enlarged, and the stem will have very dense pubescence when young.
The appearance of the lantern fruit is spherical, and the size of the fruit is a little larger than the human thumb.It also looks like a vertical growth pattern, so it looks like a lantern, which is also the origin of the name.The girl fruit is very transparent, with a very clear vertical vascular bundle.
There are seeds in the lantern fruit, and there is not much water in it. It tastes a little like pomegranate. It tastes very sour when it is not ripe. After it is ripe, it looks purplish red and tastes sour and sweet.Girls will have more water in the fruit, fewer seeds, immature taste will be bitter, mature fruit is yellow, taste sweet.
Lantern fruit likes sunshine, and the soil for growth is not strict, the suitable growth temperature is about 20 ~ 25 .Girl fruit has a good adaptability, likes cool environment, and suitable temperature requirements are low, in the environment of 3-42 C can grow.
