This fruit sells for 30 yuan per jin, yet it is disliked because it bears too much fruit

Wax apples are beloved, with plenty of juice, low calories and high nutritional value, and compared with other fruits, their price is also quite high, generally selling for 30 yuan per jin in supermarkets, and now in many cities wax apple trees have been planted in residential communities, parks or roadside green belts as ornamental trees.

Wax apple is a fruit that mainly grows in the tropics, belonging to the evergreen tree category; adult trees are 3 m tall, can sprout branches multiple times, flower and bear fruit multiple times, have a large growth volume and bear a lot of fruit. Normally they bloom from March to May and the fruit ripens from May to July. Current technology can make wax apple flower and bear fruit 4-6 times a year, and the yield is even more staggering.

Wax apple has strong adaptability and is not strict about soil conditions; sandy soil, clay, red soil and slightly acidic or alkaline soil can all be used for planting; it also has strong waterlogging tolerance, and areas often flooded still grow, bloom and bear fruit normally.

But wax apple likes warmth and fears cold, with an optimum growth temperature of 25-30 degrees C. In winter it requires no frost damage; below 7 degrees C, flower buds and young fruit are prone to cold damage and drop off. It has somewhat high water requirements, needing a sufficient water supply throughout the year, and the soil should usually be kept moist.

When the wax apple bears fruit, the wax apples hanging on the tree look like a string of bright red little lanterns, very ornamental, but precisely because they are planted in green belts or residential communities, after the fruit ripens in summer, it directly falls with a "plop" onto the road and is crushed and rotted by pedestrians or wheels.

Not to mention affecting the environment, and since summer temperatures are high, the smell of it rotting is also unpleasant, which is what makes it disliked. But as for the wax apple, is bearing a lot of fruit its fault? No, right!

And for such a high-yielding and good-looking tree species, why not plant it at home in a pot, so you can pick and eat whenever you want, and also save quite a bit of fruit money, but if planting it in a flowerpot, you must buy a dwarf variety.