Distribution
chestnut ordinary - the usual attribute of many cities, decorating park alleys, squares, boulevards, home gardens, streets and gardens.Fifteen members of the genus horse chestnut can be found in North America, China, Europe and Japan.In Kiev, the Buckeyes - trees, which appeared in the first half of XIX century.They became the "calling card" of the Ukrainian capital, and the image of a leaf and inflorescence became a natural symbol of the city.Deciduous tree stuck in the European part of Russia, where the climate is very different from the mild climate of southern Europe - the birthplace of the plant.In the Balkans, where it is now found in the wild horse chestnuts, called relict trees, as they are from ancient times the inhabitants of the local mountain forests.Today chestnuts wherever there are appropriate conditions for their growth, are favorites park design.
Description
Chestnut - tree (photo presented in the article) ornamental.It is always attractive, especially in the warm period when his broad crown is covered with large leaves mosaic bizarre, consisting of five to seven leaflets arranged like a fan.In May, at a time of abundant flowering chestnut trees - trees which dazzle the incredible beauty of white tinged with pink bell-shaped flowers.Inflorescences pyramidal shape (upright brush) resemble candle that broke out among the dark green foliage.Later, in the branches of large mature fruit - brown seeds with a white scar in the ground, hidden in the tricuspid boxes with spikes.In August and September the tree horse chestnut surprised again.Boxes are revealed and shining like polished seeds called in everyday speech or a chestnut horse chestnut, fall on the ground.It is believed that chestnut given the name "horse" for the color of the rind of fruits resembling the skin of a bay horse suit.
Application
conker, unlike nuts sweet chestnut, inedible, but are a valuable raw material for the production of medicines.In the pharmaceutical industry are also flowers and bark.The drugs from this plant - tablets, ointments, drops, capsules, suppositories - is used to treat common diseases in our time vessels.Traditional medicine uses preparations based on chestnut for the treatment of varicose veins on the legs and hemorrhoids.Healers recommend the use of topically alcohol tincture of flowers of horse chestnut to relieve arthritic and rheumatic pain.Horse chestnut wood has no commercial value, but is valuable for wood carvers.The plant is a honey plant.Buckeyes - trees with a domed crown, reaching great heights, interesting in all seasons.That is why they are of great value for the urban greening.In addition, according to environmentalists, the trees of this kind perfectly purified from the exhaust air in the cities.According to scientists, one tree the strength to clean up to 20 thousand cubic meters a contaminated air.
