Describes how things change in nature or character according to their environment; the same thing can become quite different under different circumstances

A variety of orange, specifically the dried fruit of the trifoliate or bitter orange tree, used as a medicinal herb in traditional Chinese medicine to treat indigestion and abdominal pain.

dried immature fruit of a citron or trifoliate orange used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat indigestion and pain

oriental raisin tree, a tree of the buckthorn family whose peduncles are edible and used in herbal medicine

thorns; thorny plants

a deciduous tree with edible fruit used as medicine or in cooking; its hard wood is often used for making furniture

A mythical or real snake with a head at each end; also known as [[两头蛇|兩頭蛇|liang3 tou2 she2]]

(idiom) a good thing turning bad due to a change in environment; literally, the orange tree becomes a bitter citrus tree when transplanted to the north

tangerines grown north of the Huai River turn into bitter trifoliate oranges; a metaphor for how environment changes the nature of things

an idiom meaning that the environment changes the nature of a person or thing, as the same species of plant might produce sweet fruit in the south but bitter fruit in the north

(literary) things that appear differently or change their nature due to a change in environment or location