Detailed Guide to the Drought-Tolerant Wintersweet: Growing Locations, Blooming Period, Benefits of Steeping in Water, and Seed Price per Jin

Wintersweet, also called golden plum, wax flower, or yellow plum blossom, is great for courtyard planting and is also suitable for old-stump bonsai, cut flowers, and shaping art. It is an ideal precious flowering tree for winter viewing. So, where does the drought-proof wintersweet grow? In which months does it bloom? What are the benefits of steeping it in water to drink? How much is a jin of seeds?

1. Where does the drought-proof wintersweet grow?

Wintersweet likes sunlight and can tolerate shade, cold, and drought, but dislikes waterlogging. Wintersweet flowers bloom proudly in frost and snow, with yellow flowers like wax and a rich fragrance, and it is a main flowering tree for winter viewing. It fears wind and is relatively cold-hardy, able to overwinter safely at no lower than -15℃; it can be grown outdoors in areas south of Beijing, but if the flowering period encounters a low temperature of -10℃, the flowers will suffer cold damage. It grows best in slightly acidic sandy loam with deep, fertile, loose, and well-drained soil, and grows poorly on saline-alkali land.

2. In which months does wintersweet bloom?

According to angiosperm records, wintersweet blooms from November to March of the following year, and the fruit matures from July to August. Wintersweet buds in the deep winter when all other flowers have withered, braving the cold and defying frost, expressing the Chinese nation's character of never yielding in the face of tyranny and giving people spiritual inspiration and enjoyment of beauty.

3. What are the benefits of steeping wintersweet flowers in water to drink?

The wintersweet flower is also a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. Its flowers contain many medicinal substances, such as many types of volatile oils, carotene, and other beneficial substances, and can lower blood sugar, clear heat and detoxify, and relieve heat dizziness and other conditions, so wintersweet flowers can be brewed as tea.

How exactly should wintersweet flowers be brewed as tea: first, you can buy directly processed wintersweet flowers, then rinse them with boiling water, and after about 10 minutes they are ready.

Second, you can also pick wintersweet yourself, then dry the wintersweet flowers in the sun until completely dried, and then rinse them with boiling water. Because wintersweet flowers are slightly bitter on their own, you can add granulated sugar or honey and mix well, and after about 10 minutes you can drink it.

The effects of wintersweet flower tea: it can clear heat and detoxify, and help prevent and treat wind-cold infection and colds. Its flower buds can also relieve heat, stop cough, and treat vomiting and dizziness, etc.

Wintersweet flowers can also be mixed with bitter gourd tea, rose, honeysuckle, reishi, osmanthus, and others for drinking. Not only is it delicious and refreshing, it can also strengthen the body, truly with many effects.

★Warm reminder:

Steeping wintersweet flowers as tea does not only have benefits. It also has side effects.

First, wintersweet flowers themselves are cold in nature, so people with a strongly cold constitution or who are weak should not drink wintersweet flower tea. It will increase the body's cold nature, lower immunity, and make one prone to wind-cold infection.

Furthermore, wintersweet flowers contain a substance similar to strychnine, and drinking too much can cause bodily convulsions and even poisoning, so the dosage must be used with caution.

So although wintersweet flower tea is tasty and has many benefits, it must be consumed in moderation and not continuously, to avoid excessive cold nature harming the body.

4. How much is a jin of wintersweet seeds?

The market price of wintersweet seeds is still quite low. The price per jin of seeds is around 150 yuan to 160 yuan, and this price is still within a range that everyone can accept.