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Its quality and price largely depend on origin and aging. Lower-grade CRP is often adulterated to imitate premium products, making accurate authentication of region and vintage essential for quality assurance and fair market valuation. Existing methods for vintage classification are limited due to complex equipment and high operational costs, restricting their scalability in practical applications. To address these issues, a convenient method for the accurate identification of Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium using image and multi-stream is proposed. The method comprises three main stages. Firstly, an object detection network with bounding box refinement localizes exocarp and albedo regions from whole CRP images. Secondly, a three-stream feature extractor processes the whole images along with exocarp and albedo patches to capture complementary visual details. A channel-level feature interaction module further enhances robustness through cross-region feature integration. 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