What is Yangmei?
Yangmei is a unique Chinese fruit crop mainly cultivated in subtropical region of southeast China and Yunnan-Guizhou altiplano. It is of a long cultivation history, verified by scientific research, more than 6,000 years ago, wild Yangmei was eaten in the south of Yangtze River. Main production areas of Yangmei crop are distributed in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Fujian provinces. Yangmei fruit has a bright-colored round appearance with juicy sugar-acid balanced flesh containing high nutritional value. The purple Yangmei is of better quality and taste among its red, pink, white and purple varieties. Yangmei trees are of 5 to 10 meters in height topped with round canopy. Its fruit is typically a stone fruit with delicate papillae-like pulp. Yangmei is harvested and marketed in a narrow window (June to July), and difficult to be stored.
Yangmei, also called red bayberry or yamamomo, is a type of sweet fruit native to Asia. Yangmei is almost unheard of in the United States, although the tree can be found growing along many urban streets. Yangmei is very high in vitamin C, and the fruit has been cultivated for thousands of years in China, where today it is eaten raw, fermented into alcoholic beverages, and used to produce a distinct reddish dye, which is extracted from the bark of the tree. Yangmei grows up to 32 feet (10 meters) in temperate environments. The Yangmei fruit ripens on the tree during the summer months, with a very small ripeness window of only a few weeks. The tree is an evergreen, with pale silvery bark and slender green leaves. Yangmei is often planted in areas with poor soil because it is a nitrogen fixer and will replenish the soil it is grown on. For this reason, it makes an excellent crop for fields that need long term nitrogen restoration, because it will produce profitable fruit while renewing th
