Is raspberry named because snakes like it or because they are afraid of it?

Snake berry is because its fruit is bright red and looks like a pot, like a snake opening its mouth. The ancients also said that eating it would lead to poisoning and death. "More poisonous than a snake", hence the name "snake berry".

Duchesnea indica has high medicinal value, and the whole grass can be used as medicine. At the same time, according to Compendium of Materia Medica, "As the saying goes, food can kill people, but not in the same breath. Stop shivering (most people say that eating raspberries will kill people, at most, the whole body will be cold) ". It shows that the fruit of Duchesnea indica is not suitable for eating. If eaten in small quantities, it will not die as people say.

Duchesnea indica is widely distributed in most parts of China. It blooms in April-May and bears fruit in May-June every year. Flowers and fruits can last until September to 10. Raspberry is cold-resistant, likes to be born in a humid environment, does not choose soil, and grows well in soil rich in humus and well drained. At present, it is used as a ground cover plant for afforestation under urban forests.

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Raspberry characteristics

Rhizomes are short; Stems are creeping, slender, 30- 100 cm long, villous, and often have adventitious roots on nodes. Palmately trifoliate compound leaves with many basal leaves and long stems, and cauline leaves with short stems; Leaflets sessile or short-stalked, rhombic or obovate, long 1.5-4 cm, wide 1-3 cm. The tip is blunt, the base is wedge-shaped or oblique wedge-shaped, the edge is coarsely serrated, both sides are green, sparsely pilose, and the central lobule is larger than the lateral lobule.

Petiole is thin, several times or nearly as long as leaf; Stipules ovate-lanceolate, entire, pilose. Flowers are solitary in the axils of cauline leaves, with a diameter of 1.5-2 cm; Pedicel thin, 3-4.5 cm long; Epicalyx lobes obovate, about 8 mm long, apex 3-5 teeth, larger than sepals.

Sepals narrowly ovate, apex acute, entire; Petals yellow, obovate, apex slightly concave, nearly as long as accessory sepals; Stamens are shorter than petals; Style short; Carpels are hairless. Aggregate fruit is spherical or rectangular, fleshy or spongy, and red. Achenes are small, oblate and dark red.

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