Photo shows waxberries in Shixing county, Shaoguan, south China\’s Guangdong Province. (Photo/Yang Ruilian)
Waxberries recently entered their best harvest season in Shixing county, Shaoguan, south China\’s Guangdong Province.
With high medicinal value, a pleasant taste and a ruby hue, waxberry is considered the \”agate in the fruit kingdom.\”
\”We\’re glad to visit at a time when the harvest festival kicks off, and to collect pretty and delicious waxberries,\” said a visitor surnamed Li, from Guangzhou, capital city of Guangdong, adding it\’s her first time to pick waxberries.
Shixing county, known as the \”hometown of Chinese waxberries,\” enjoys a 300-year tradition of waxberry planting. It is one of the largest waxberry planting bases in Guangdong, covering an area of 32,000 mu (2,133 hectares).