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Is honeysuckle suitable for growing in mountainous areas?

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Honeysuckle, also known as Japanese honeysuckle flower or erhua, is a perennial vine whose flowers, leaves, stems and roots can all be used as medicine. In hilly and mountainous areas, growing honeysuckle on barren hills, hillsides and marginal land can both green the barren hills and wild ridges and bring relatively high economic returns. Honeysuckle has the functions of clearing heat and detoxifying, cooling the blood and resolving stasis, and can mainly treat externally contracted wind-heat, sores and ulcers with viral infection, red swelling with heat and pain, the early stage of warm disease, and bloody pus in the stool. Honeysuckle also contains a variety of trace elements essential to the human body, as well as enzyme acids beneficial to human health, and has a certain effect on anti-aging, cancer prevention and keeping the body light and fit.

Honeysuckle, also known as Japanese honeysuckle flower or erhua, is a perennial vine whose flowers, leaves, stems and roots can all be used as medicine. In hilly and mountainous areas, growing honeysuckle on barren hills, hillsides and marginal land can both green the barren hills and wild ridges and bring relatively high economic returns.

Honeysuckle has the functions of clearing heat and detoxifying, cooling the blood and resolving stasis, and can mainly treat externally contracted wind-heat, sores and ulcers with viral infection, red swelling with heat and pain, the early stage of warm disease, and bloody pus in the stool. Honeysuckle also contains a variety of trace elements essential to the human body, as well as enzyme acids beneficial to human health, and has a certain effect on anti-aging, cancer prevention and keeping the body light and fit. In recent years, honeysuckle has been widely used in medicine, food, health care and spices, and a variety of products highly welcomed by consumers have been developed, such as Yinhuang oral liquid, honeysuckle tea and honeysuckle bath foam. At present, the year-round demand for honeysuckle nationwide is about 7 million kg, while last year's output was only 3.5 million kg. Therefore, the contradiction between supply and demand is prominent, the demand gap is very large, and there is no worry about developing cultivation.

Honeysuckle originally grew wild in the mountains and has extremely strong adaptability to climate, soil and other environmental conditions; it is drought-tolerant and waterlogging-tolerant, heat-tolerant and cold-tolerant, and can grow densely on hilly and mountainous land, saline-alkali land and by rivers and embankments. It is both a scarce Chinese medicinal material and an excellent plant for greening barren hills and wild ridges. When developing cultivation, if two- or three-year-old branches are selected for cuttings, it can be propagated in large quantities. Usually one planting allows many years of harvesting, with two to three harvests each year; high yields can reach 70-100 kg per mu, while low yields are 40-50 kg, and the purchase price on the Chinese medicinal materials market is around 30 yuan per kg, giving an income of about 1500-3000 yuan per mu, several times higher than growing grain or ordinary cash crops.

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