江苏省连云港市东部濒临黄海的云台山,据传是古典名著《西游记》中所描写的花果山。这且不论。但云台山的确是“四季好花常开,八节鲜果不断”的花果之山。这里除有常见的桃、李、梨、枣、苹果、山楂等果品外,还有一种闻名遐迩的稀世珍果雪桃。雪桃,一名冬青桃,树形与一般桃树相似,也是3月开花,4月座果。唯一不同的是,当雪桃的果实长到樱桃般大小时,几乎停止了生长,直到过了中秋节,气温降低,它才接着继续生长,至冬至前后,雪桃基本长成,可采摘食用。不过,它真正成熟的时间却是在大雪之后,纷纷扬扬的瑞雪中,尽 Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province, the eastern part of the Yellow Sea Yuntaishan, rumored to be the classic famous “Journey to the West” described in Huaguoshan. This does not matter. However, Yuntaishan is indeed the “four seasons flowers are often open, eight ceaseless fruit,” the fruit of the mountain. In addition to the common peach, plum, pear, jujube, apples, hawthorn and other fruits, there is also a world-famous rare cher-peach. Snow peach, a peach, tree and peach similar to the general, but also in March flowering, April fruit. The only difference is that when the fruit of the snow peach grows to a cherry-sized size, it almost ceases to grow until the Mid-Autumn Festival, when the temperature drops, it continues to grow. Before and after the winter solstice, the snow peach grows basically and can be picked and eaten . However, it is really mature time is snow, have swirled snow, do