It takes ten years to wait for a fruit. Why is the "King of Nuts" Torreya so expensive?

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1. It is difficult to plant trees

2. The result is difficult

3. Difficulty in picking

4. Difficulty in production

Torreya is a kind of dried fruit. It is more expensive because it is difficult to bear fruit and it is also difficult to pick. This plant is a unique tree species in China. It usually grows in deep mountains. It takes seven or eight years for the saplings to bear fruit after they are planted. The growth cycle is extremely long. Moreover, this kind of plant has a characteristic that it has a long maturity cycle, and the fruits may grow together for two or even three years, so it must be picked manually, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive.

1. Difficulty in planting trees

Torreya is a rare tree species. It is native to my country, but it is mainly found in the south. Moreover, it is a tree that grows in deep mountains and has a particularly long growth cycle. The fruits of a normally growing torreya tree are not suitable for consumption and require artificial grafting. The grafted saplings will take more than 10 years to bear fruit after planting. It can be said that just planting trees is difficult.

2. Fruiting is difficult

Torreya Although the tree bears fruit in seven or eight years, unlike other tree species, the fruit can be harvested in the same year. The growth cycle of its fruit is also very long. It takes more than a year from the time the fruit grows to the time it bears fruit. This kind of tree takes one year to bloom, one year to bear fruit, and another year to mature. So when the first wave of fruits is about to mature, the second wave of flowers will bloom, and the second wave of fruits have just begun to bear, so The locals have a saying of "thousand-year-old torreya three generations of fruit", which means that there are both flowers and fruits on a tree, and three generations of fruits are produced on the tree at the same time, which is very magical.

3. Difficulty in picking

Positive This is because the three generations of torreya trees have the same branch, which makes picking them particularly troublesome. There are both mature fruits and immature fruits on one branch. Machines cannot accurately identify them, so they can only be climbed manually. If you pick from a tree on a ladder, if it still sways even if you shake it halfway, it is immature and cannot be picked. As a result, the cost is very high.

4. Difficult to make

Just The picked torreya must be peeled after the outer peel rots, then cleaned and placed in a cool and ventilated place to dry. After drying, it is fried. The process is also very complicated and the cost will increase.

It is precisely because of the above four reasons that torreya fruit is very rare, but it is rich in nutrients and is known as the king of dried fruits, so the price is also very high.

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