Recommended Great Places for Bayberry Picking Around Shanghai

Bayberry is favored by women because it is rich in vitamins, amino acids, fruit acids and other elements. It can prevent excess sugar in the body from turning into fat, helps the body excrete harmful substances, can nourish and beautify the skin, and also helps with weight loss and slimming. It is currently selling well, but it is not very fresh, so picking it yourself is better. Then where around Shanghai can you pick bayberry?

Xianju Bayberry

Xianju Bayberry, one of the famous specialties of Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province, is extremely well known and has the title of “Hometown of Chinese Bayberry.” Beautiful in color, sweet in taste, large in size, and small in pit, this bayberry here will absolutely meet your high standards. What is even more surprising is that Kantou Bayberry Base is not far from the National AAAA-level scenic spot — Shenxianju Scenic Area, Yong'an River Rafting, Jingxingyan Scenic Area and others, so you can pick while sightseeing.

Sightseeing Garden: Tongqiao Bayberry Leisure Sightseeing Garden, Fuying Street, Xianju County

Address: Tongqiao Village, Fuying Street

Sightseeing Garden: Xilu Bayberry Leisure Sightseeing Garden, Bulu Township, Xianju County

Address: Xilu Village, Bulu Township

Sightseeing Garden: Kantou Bayberry Leisure Sightseeing Garden, Hengxi Town, Xianju County

Address: Kantou Village, Hengxi Town

PS: Ticket prices for bayberry orchard sightseeing tours vary with the market. In previous years they were generally: water chestnut-type bayberry picking 20 yuan/person; Dongkui-type bayberry picking 30 yuan/person.

Self-driving route: Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo Expressway to Shangyu, transfer to Shang-San Expressway to Linhai, transfer to Taijin Expressway to Hengxi exit.

Lanxi Bayberry

If you crave bayberry in June, you must go to Lanxi, because Lanxi's bayberry is highly famous in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang area. Lanxi's more than 7 mu of bayberry forest is distributed along Provincial Highway 47, stretching for more than 50 li, forming the stunning “Fifty-Li Bayberry Corridor.” Savor bayberry, meet in Lanxi!

Best picking time: June 10 to the end of June

Price: about 20 yuan per jin, no admission ticket

Bayberry bases: 1. Lanxi Majian Bayberry Specialty Base; Address: Majian Town, Lanxi City. 2. Lanxi Baishe Huanglong; Address: Baishe Township, Lanxi City. 3. Lanxi Zhushan Village High-Quality Tanmei Orchard; Address: Xiajiangwu Village, Baishe Township, Lanxi City. 4. Xiangxi Panlong Orchard; Address: No. 75 Lanpu Road, Majian.

Self-driving route: Exit at Shencun Interchange of Hangzhou-Jinhua-Quzhou Expressway, take National Highway 330 to downtown Lanxi, then transfer to Provincial Highway 47 to Majian.

Wuxi Dafu Bayberry

Dafu Bayberry has a cultivation history of nearly a thousand years. It is thick-fleshed, small-pitted, sweet and sour, and has more than 10 varieties including Wumei, Bailizhi, and Dayexidi. The fruit has effects such as quenching thirst, stimulating appetite, replenishing qi and promoting body fluids.

Best picking time: June 20 to early July

Price: 14 yuan-20 yuan per jin

Address: Near Dafu, Lianghe Bay, Dafu, Taihu Shanshui City

Self-driving route: Start from Taihu Avenue, pass Sanguocheng and Tongyi Jiayuan, then turn right and keep driving. When you see a conspicuous sign by the roadside: Lianghe Bay Resort, you have arrived.

PS: After entering the resort, if you want to pick bayberry, you can buy a picking card from the owner. After receiving a small basket with the card, you can pick to your heart's content. You can try to fill the small basket as full as possible. Of course, if you eat while picking, the owner will not mind.

Zhejiang Shangyu Bayberry

“Jichu bayberry is unmatched in the world, and its flavor is known to surpass other places.” This “Ji” is Shaoxing. Among the bayberries in the Shaoxing area, those from Erdu, Yiting Town, Shangyu City are the best. Erdu deep-red type and crystal bayberry are especially famous. It is said they were once offered as tribute to Empress Dowager Cixi. Wow! Tribute goods, do you all want a basket?

Best picking time: June 20 — early July

Price: 15-20 yuan per jin

Transportation route: Hangzhou Bay Ring Expressway —— Hangzhou Bay Bridge —— Shenhai Expressway —— Lu'an Line —— Shangyu City

Suzhou Xishan Bayberry

June is especially suitable for visiting Xishan, and once you go, bayberry is a must-eat! Pick some bayberry, drink some bayberry wine, admire the moon... Moreover, Xishan also has scenic spots such as Shigong Mountain, Linwu Cave, and Baoshan Temple. Being close to Taihu Lake, you can also taste river seafood.

Best picking time: mid-June-early July

Price: Picking admission ticket is 15 yuan/person. After entering the orchard, you may taste freely. If you need to buy, it is 10 yuan/jin. Groups and large-quantity buyers may receive discounts as appropriate.

Self-driving route: (about 2 hours by car)

1. Shanghai — Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway — Sujiahang Expressway (Hangzhou direction) — 2nd exit Xishan direction — drive 20KM — exit at Xishan — pass the traffic light, turn right at the 2nd intersection (T-junction) — go straight for about 10 minutes — cross three Taihu Bridges — straight ahead is Xishan Island, Linwu Cave, Shigong Mountain Scenic Area, Mingyue Bay Scenic Area

2. Shanghai — A9 (Huqingping Expressway-Husuzhe Expressway) — Sujiahang Expressway (Suzhou direction) — Ring Expressway Xishan direction — drive 20KM — exit at Xishan — pass the traffic light, turn right at the 2nd intersection (T-junction) and go straight for about 10 minutes — cross three Taihu Bridges — straight ahead to Shigong Mountain Scenic Area —— 800 meters west (can reach Shanshui Jiayuan)

Changshu Bayberry

Baoyan Ecological Park is in the hinterland of Yushan National Forest Park. In the park there are more than 170 ancient bayberry trees over a hundred years old, bearing fruit every year, full of agate-like berries, and today it is even more of five forest plant ecological areas: bayberry variety garden, fine fruit tree garden, ornamental bamboo species garden, three-dimensional planting sightseeing garden, and bamboo sea. It will absolutely make your trip worthwhile...

Ticket price: Jianmen Scenic Area 7:00 — 17:00 10 yuan/person (15 yuan during the Bayberry Festival)

Baoyan Ecological Sightseeing Garden 7:00 — 17:00 60 yuan/ticket.

Address: No. 8 Xingfu Temple Road Street, Yushan North Road Telephone: (0512)52773637

Bus route: City bus No. 125, get off at Baoyan Ecological Sightseeing Garden

Cixi Bayberry

Cixi is a famous hometown of bayberry in China. Its bayberry cultivation history dates back more than 1,300 years, while wild bayberry has a history of more than 7,000 years. Its bayberry is large in fruit, small in pit, delicious in taste, brilliant in color, and of extremely high quality, and has long enjoyed the reputation of “Cixi bayberry is unmatched in the world.” Bayberry has high appearance value, just right for you!

Sightseeing Garden: Shangri-La Agricultural Park

Address: Dashan, Henghe Town, Cixi

Sightseeing Garden: Cixi Liangmaodong Bayberry Sightseeing Garden

Address: Meiyuan Village, Henghe Town, Cixi (toward Dashan Village)

Sightseeing Garden: Qiaotou Ecological Bayberry Garden

Address: East of Shanglin Lake (beside the Qiaotou section along the mountain road)

Transportation routes:

1. Independent travel route (departing from Shanghai): Shanghai Long-Distance Bus Station or Xujiahui Station — Cixi shuttle bus (every 2 hours/departure, arriving at Cixi Long-Distance South Station in 4 hours) — take bus No. 1 (to West Bus Station) — shuttle bus to Henghe (get off at Shahe Station) directly to the bayberry garden. (From Cixi Long-Distance South Station, take a taxi to Henghe Shahe and get off directly at the bayberry garden.

2. Self-driving route (departing from Shanghai): Start from the Shanghai-Ningbo Expressway — get off at the Shangyu section — via National Highway 329 — to Cixi Hushan — to Henghe (toward Shahe, directly to the bayberry garden)