What Is a Candlenut?
Candle fruit (scientific name: Aegiceras corniculatum (Linn.) Blanco) is a plant of the genus Botanicaceae, shrub or small tree, 1.5-4 meters high; twigs glabrous, brownish black. The leaves are alternate, near opposite at the top of the branch, the leaves are leathery, obovate, elliptic, or broadly obovate, the top is round or slightly concave, and the base is wedge-shaped. Umbellate inflorescence, born at the top of the branch, sessile, with more than 10 flowers; the pedicel is about 1 cm long, with a few glandular spots. Capsules cylindrical, curved like crescents, acuminate at the apex; persistent calyx packs base. Flowering from December to January-February of the following year, fruiting from October to December, and sometimes flowering from April to fruiting from February. [1]
- It grows on the mudflats where the tide is fluctuating by the sea. It is one of the mangrove species and sometimes a pure forest. I like warm and humid climate, and I like high temperature, and the suitable growth temperature is about 20-30 . The soil is required to be moist and fertile, and the growth on freshwater-regulated beaches is better. [4]
- Distributed in China, India, the Indochina Peninsula to the Philippines and southern Australia; in China in Guangxi, Guangdong (Wenchang, Yaxian, Xinxian, Qionghai, Wanning, Zhanjiang, Lianjiang, Xuwen, Taishan, Yangjiang, Zhuhai , Huilai, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Haifeng, Lufeng and Rao are equally coastal), Fujian and the islands of the South China Sea. [4]
- Tonghua mochi small roll moth : 90%
- Economy: Bark contains tannin, which can be used as raw material for extracting tannin; wood is a better fuelwood. [1]
- Ornamentation: The tree is beautiful and the red branches are good ornamental trees. [2]
- Ecology: Its roots, stems, leaves and other organs have special physiological structures and regulating functions, and have strong resistance to sea tide winds, suitable for cultivation in humid and warm areas. Group planting can form spectacular mangrove landscapes, suitable for coastal ecological landscape forest belt Planting. [2]