Heiyu Watermelon [Shandong Zaozhuang Specialty]

What is Heiyu watermelon? Authentic Shandong Zaozhuang specialty: Heiyu watermelon

Summary:Do you want to know what Heiyu watermelon is? This article is a detailed introduction to the specialty of Shandong Zaozhuang - Heiyu Watermelon. It was compiled and edited by the editorial team of China Specialty Network after reviewing and collecting relevant information on Heiyu Watermelon. The full text takes about 7 minutes to read, mainly including the basic introduction of Heiyu Watermelon

Basic Introduction of Heiyu Watermelon

Heiyu Watermelon is famous throughout the country for its large size, thin skin, red sand flesh, and pollution-free nature. It is produced in Heiyu Village, Nanshi Town, Xuecheng District and exported to 11 cities including Shanghai, Nanjing, and Wenzhou

Family and genus classification

subphylum of angiosperms, order of dicotyledonous plants, order of cucurbitales, family of cucurbitaceae, genus of watermelon

Annual creeping herbaceous plants. The fruit has a crispy and tender flesh, a sweet and juicy taste, and is rich in mineral salts and various vitamins. It is the main summer cooling fruit. Watermelon can clear away heat and relieve summer heat, and has auxiliary effects on nephritis, diabetes, cystitis and other diseases. The fruit peel can be pickled, preserved, jam, and used as feed. The seed has an oil content of 50% and can be used for oil extraction, stir frying, or as a pastry ingredient

Characteristics: Watermelon has a main root system with a depth of more than 1 meter. The root group is mainly distributed in the root layer of 20-30 centimeters. The roots are slender and easy to break, with weak regeneration ability and are not resistant to transplantation. The seedling stem is upright, elongates between 4-5 nodes, and crawls after 5-6 leaves. It has strong branching and can form 3-4 levels of lateral branches. Leaves alternate, with deep fissures, shallow fissures, and full margins. Male and female flowers grow on the same plant, with male flowers appearing at nodes 3-5 of the main stem and female flowers at nodes 5-7. A few bisexual flowers may appear during the peak flowering period. The flower crown is yellow. Lower ovary, lateral membrane placenta. Both male and female flowers have nectaries, are arbuscular flowers, and bloom in the morning and close in the afternoon. The fruit can be round, oval, elliptical, cylindrical, etc. The fruit surface is smooth or has ridges and grooves, and the epidermis is green white, green, dark green, dark green, black, with fine mesh or stripes between. The flesh has colors such as milky white, light yellow, deep yellow, light red, and bright red. The meat is divided into tight flesh and sandy flesh. The seeds are flat, oval or long oval in shape, smooth or with cracks. Seed coat white, light brown, brown, black or brown, monochrome or variegated. 1000 seeds of major seed type weighing 100-150g, medium seed type weighing 40-60g, and small seed type weighing 20-25g. Seed melon type 150g-200g

The production area can be cultivated in most parts of the country. Shilipu in Yishui County, Shandong Province and Laixi in Shandong Province are extensively cultivated. The Nanlan watermelon produced in Hetoudian Town, Laixi City is famous for its sandy flesh, sweet taste, abundant water, and rich nutrition

Usage: Watermelon fruit is the main fruit in summer. Mature fruits generally contain 5-12% sugar in their flesh, including glucose, fructose, and sucrose, in addition to a large amount of water. The sweetness increases with the increase of sucrose in the later stage of maturity. Without starch, the sweetness during post harvest storage will decrease due to the hydrolysis of disaccharides into monosaccharides. Melon seeds can be used as tea food, and melon skins can be processed into watermelon sauce. In traditional Chinese medicine, melon juice and melon skin are used as medicine to clear heat and relieve fever

It can be called the king of melons, and was introduced from the Western Regions during the Han Dynasty, hence it is called watermelon. Watermelon is also an annual herbaceous plant in the Cucurbitaceae family, native to Africa. Currently, except for a few remote and cold areas, it is planted in various parts of China, with a sweet fruit flavor and a cold nature

Varieties: Watermelons can be divided into three categories based on their usage: regular watermelon, melon seed watermelon, and small watermelon.