When do Mengzi cherries in Yunnan ripen?

Mengzi cherries are produced in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, growing in mountain forests at an altitude of 1800 m. The ripe cherries are large in fruit type and excellent in flavor. So, when do Mengzi cherries ripen?

1. When do Mengzi cherries ripen?

Mengzi cherries ripen and go on the market in early April. Mengzi cherries belong to the early-spring cherry varieties, with a flowering period in March. The flowers are bright and colorful, and the branches and leaves are lush and vigorous, making it a very good ornamental flowering tree species; the cherries it bears are large in fruit type and excellent in flavor, and can be eaten fresh or made into canned goods, while the juice can be made into syrup, gum and fruit wine, and the kernel can be pressed for oil.

2. Brief introduction to Mengzi

Mengzi is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, located in the southeastern part of Yunnan Province, with a land area of 2228 sq km, administering 7 towns, 2 townships and 2 ethnic townships. It is one of the 24 millennium-old counties established earliest in Yunnan, and many firsts, including Yunnan's first customs house, first telegraph office, first post office, first foreign bank, first privately run railway, first foreign-funded enterprise, first consulate stationed in Yunnan, and first thermal power station, appeared here one after another.

Mengzi is the “Home of Chinese Crossing-the-Bridge Rice Noodles” and the “Home of Chinese Pomegranates”, with tourist attractions such as Nanhu Lake, Bisezhai, Yuanshi Cave, Longbao Cave, Guanyin Hall, Yuhuang Pavilion, Zhutian Temple, the former residence of Mr. Wen Yiduo, the site of the Mengzi Branch of Southwest Associated University, the site of the Mengzi Concession, the Maludong Paleolithic site, the tomb of Wang Zhe, and the tomb of Deng Xuexian.