Can you eat the fruit of the new tangerine variety Pearl Tangerine? How much does it cost per jin?
Tangerines symbolize great good fortune, and during Chinese New Year housewives never forget to buy some to keep at home, but now a new tangerine variety has been introduced, only the size of a 50-yuan coin, with an ultra-thin peel and sweet, fragrant flesh; although it costs 350 yuan per jin, it is small and adorable, and even with money you may not be able to buy it. Tangerine tree leaves tend to turn yellow easily, so you can learn about the reasons why tangerine tree leaves turn yellow.
The farmer holds scissors in her hand, picking the fruits one after another; if you thought she was harvesting kumquats, you would be wrong, for this is a new variety of fruit called the Pearl Tangerine.
Farmer: "What makes it special is its fragrance; when you eat it there is no pulp residue. The usual large ones have residue, but the Pearl Tangerine has none, so you can just swallow it straight down."
Just how mini is the thin-skinned, juicy Pearl Tangerine? Take out a 50-yuan coin and compare; look, they are about the same size, and it is several times smaller than an ordinary tangerine.
Consumer: "Eating one at a time is just right, fragrant and sweet, and delicious."
The farmer says this Pearl Tangerine has actually been grown since the 85th year of the Republic of China calendar, but as for exactly how it is grown, she remains very mysterious about it.
Farmer: "This thing is very hard to grow. The more you abuse it, the more it grows; the less you abuse it, the less it grows; some won't grow at all without abuse." Reporter: "How do you abuse it?" Farmer: "I can't say."
Ordinary tangerines average 30 yuan per jin, but Pearl Tangerines cost 350 yuan, yet even before Chinese New Year arrived, the Pearl Tangerines from the entire orchard were sold out; the farmer says this is probably because people have their eyes on Chinese New Year, when the homophone of tangerine meaning great good fortune has made it a new choice for many people when giving gifts.
