Summer ended long ago, but many still have memories of camping in the woods to pick mushrooms and berries.If you like to wander through the forest in search of his gifts, you probably met with the representative of the forest flora as stone bramble berries.It is distributed in most of Russia - from the Caucasus to the Arctic.
stone bramble berry.Description
This berry belongs to the family of pink is a perennial, honey plant.Shoots straight, reach one and a half meters in height.The leaves are wrinkled and hard in appearance reminiscent of blackberry and raspberry leaves.Small white flowers are collected into small florets.Berries in shape and size similar to cranberries.Color - bright red.Stone bramble - berry (photos presented in the article), which has a second name - northern grenades.It is not surprising, the fact that these berries taste like a pomegranate berries - have the same refreshing, slightly sour taste and a solid big bone.Actually, because of this bone this plant got its name.Growing stone bramble berries as well as mushrooms, under the shady trees, forming small thickets of shrubs 20-30.Forest berry stone bramble is very tender and juicy.Therefore, if you decide to bring home these berries, be sure to put them in a basket, bucket or bowl, as in the package, they quickly deteriorate and raskisnut.
stone bramble berry.Useful properties
Like any wild berries, stone berry is rich in various vitamins and minerals.So, in the fruit of this plant contain a large amount of vitamin C, pectin, sugars, flavonoids.There are copper, manganese, iron and zinc.Fans of herbal infusions have to taste the tea from the leaves of stone bramble.Many of its considered one of the most delicious and fragrant.
stone bramble berry.Application
Well, first of all, this berry from preparing jams, desserts, fruit drinks, fruit drinks, jams.This berry is dried, pour the sugar and, of course, eat fresh.The crushed bones, like the bones of pomegranate is used for salad dishes.In the old days kostyanichnoe jam it was considered one of the best.Now the stone bramble berries are not so popular, many people simply do not know about this plant and when it detects no risk to try unfamiliar fruit.The official medicine stone bramble berry does not apply, but in the people is very popular.For example, a decoction of stems and leaves is drunk with the disease stomach and intestines, gout, rheumatism and tumors.Juice of these berries strengthen blood vessels, and it has beneficial effects on overall health.A very original way to treat stuttering and fear are used in Baikal.To do this, collect the leaves of the plants affected by fungus.Then they were dried and given the patient to drink a decoction made from these leaves.
Although stone bramble berry is a storehouse of vitamins, though not all of it can be consumed as food.Because acids contained in the berries for people with ulcers of the stomach or duodenum apply them in your diet is strictly prohibited.Well, if there are no contraindications, then eat health.After all, these berries will give you health, beauty and youth!
