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• 2026-07-23Black Mouth Berry / 黑嘴巴果

  Today, Bei Bei and I went for a short hike up Phoenix Mountain in Zhuzhou, Hunan Province and found a patch of low-growing berries, Melastoma dodecandrum (地棯). It's edible, sweet with an astringent and slightly bitter aftertaste. The whole plant is used in traditional Chinese medicine. According to a 2003 article published in China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica, Five compounds were isolated and identified as hexacosanoic acid (I), quercetin(II), avicularin(III), gallic acid (IV), kaempferol(V).