time when flowering cherries - special.Firstly, it is a very beautiful sight.More trees barely dissolved the leaves, and then, as if the explosions of white - hanging fragrant buds of white flowers and swarms of bees circling above them.Popularly called bird cherry beautiful bride.Wearing elegant white decor, it symbolizes the transition to the hot early summer.
Rhode cherries has 20 species of shrubs and trees.In the middle zone in the gardens spread common bird cherry, which has black astringent fruits, as well as virgin, whose red berries.The most pleasant odor when flowering cherries is fragrant.
unusually fragrant flowers of wild cherry and assembled in the brush, reaching a length of 12 cm. The leaves are her major.It is often found in city parks, among bushes in damp forests, forest areas in western Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.In the forest-steppe zones of the plant is less common.Prunus common in forests throughout Europe, also found in Western Siberia.Wood its thick, firm and elastic, has a rare brownish-black color, and thus has been applied in the turning and carpentry.
cherry fruit have a peculiar astringent taste.Can be used as food, but not in crude form.Of these, as a rule, they prepared a variety of beverages, as well as flour.Of the latter also make jelly, pie fillings and dumplings.
is good for us?
Besides beauty and pleasant odor, this tree has many useful properties that we can use.When the bird cherry blossoms, its flowers contain vitamin C (ascorbic acid), E, F, micro and macro elements - copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, zinc, and others. The fruit also contains 5% sugars, flavonoids (izokvertsetin, rutin)anthocyanins, citric and malic acid.
Flowers bird cherry, as well as its fruits are used as a good diuretic and cholagogue.They are also used to treat rheumatism, gout, pulmonary tuberculosis, septic wounds, boils, enterocolitis, conjunctivitis, diarrhea non-infectious origin, the initial stages of diabetes.
Cheremuhovo cold
say when flowering cherries - come cooling.Is it true?Since ancient times people believed that the cold weather brings with it the color of cherry.But people will only accept fixed, and do not explain the essence of the phenomenon.In May, when cherries bloom, there is a return of cold weather, often with snow.The reason is that at this time we are often invade arctic air masses from the north of Scandinavia.As for the tree, while the bird cherry blossoms, can coincide with the arrival of the cold and just before.
If you plant in your garden bird cherry, this tree will give you a beautiful fragrant blossoms, and then allow the fruits to eat.New varieties of bird cherry have large and not as tart berries, they have a kind of spicy flavor.Biologically active substances contained in them, slow down the aging process, increase the body's resistance to adverse conditions of our environment, the fruits and flowers contain vitamins and minerals.
