【Haichuan Food Guessing Game】Looks like a watermelon, but the seeds are extremely large
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The name is related to this year’s zodiac sign
This type of melon has only about 6 to 12 seeds, and they are extremely large, being roughly 100 times bigger than ordinary melon seeds. It is about 7 to 9 centimeters in length and roughly 5 centimeters in diameter. About the size of a duck egg. It is precisely because of its large size that these seeds are currently the largest edible seedlings in the world. And there is no other like it.
It certainly isn’t grown in our **land**
Oil melon is also known as oil dreg fruit, pig fruit, ridged oil melon, and oil dreg melon. In Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, the oil melon – a wild plant that produces oil usable for both consumption and industrial purposes – is very popular among the local Dai people, who affectionately call it “Majing,” meaning the melon that squirrels like to eat. In Dai medicine as well, oil melon is used. According to Dai medicine, its roots, stems, leaves, fruits, and seeds are bitter in taste and cool in nature; they have the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, killing parasites and relieving itching, promoting diuresis and reducing jaundice, as well as healing sores and promoting tissue regeneration. They are used to treat conditions such as scabies, ringworm, chronic ulcers that do not heal, ear pain with pus and blood discharge, jaundice, and syphilis.