Do you know where this cooling drink come from? Let me tell you!
This fascinating plant grows as a vine, and produces very big (not sweet) fruits, but eaten as a vegetable! It has a frizzed hair when young, but losses its hair when mature and develops a waxy coating. It has a long shelf life up to 12 months.
Toucheng Farm's winter melon is in full bloom and also has mature fruits for guests to collect. Its shoots, tendrils and leaves are also edible and can serve as greens.
Here at the Farm we prepare it as pickles with other ingredients and eaten as appetizer.
Winter melon is multi-useful and multi-named fruit - white gourd, winter gourd, wax gourd, or ash gourd or green pumpkin.
Winter gourd belongs to the cucurbitaceae family of the B. hispida specie.
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