2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
The bird cherry blossomed in the garden, filling it with aroma and attracting insects and lovers. And for gardeners, this is a warning - cover the cucumbers, a cold snap is expected
Description of the plant
Red-cherry or olive branches of a tree-shrub form a dense crown, creating a reliable shade for low-growing grasses that do not like excess sunlight. In May, they adorn themselves with earrings-tassels with snow-white small flowers, the aroma of which spreads throughout the district, announcing the arrival of spring.
Astringent sweet black berries on the outside do not in vain resemble the fruits of a plum, because experts attribute the bird cherry to the genus Plum. For the similarity of cherry berries to cherry fruits, some attribute it to the subgenus Cherry. By the way, there is a kind of bird cherry crossed with cherry. She has beautiful brushes with red-transparent bitter berries.
The stone inside the cherry berries is similar in its inaccessibility to the seeds of plum and cherry.
Habitat
Bird cherry prefers a temperate climate, and therefore is a frequent visitor to the gardens and forests of Russian open spaces. She chooses fertile soils, rich in organic matter. He loves humidity, and therefore settles in places where groundwater lies close to the surface: in the ravines of rivers and streams, on forest edges.
Age of friendship of a person with bird cherry
Archaeological excavations have told modern people that the people of the Stone Age still loved bird cherry. And more recently, Russians picked bird cherry berries in buckets, dried, and in winter they pounded the dried berries with a metal pestle in a metal mortar and made a fragrant tasty filling for baked pies.
Today, when the assortment of berries and fruits is wide, they began to forget about the bird cherry. It is more often used as an ornamental shrub tree, leaving tasty berries for feathered friends. To decorate city parks and summer cottages, varieties with multi-colored leaves and double flowers have been bred.
Application of bird cherry
The cherry blossoms are one of the spring honey plants with a lot of pollen and nectar. If there are a couple of hives in your summer cottage, the bees will be grateful for the flowering cherry bushes. And you to the bees - for fragrant honey. But for midges, flies, mosquitoes, horseflies and all kinds of bacteria, the bird cherry aroma is deadly, since it contains volatile biologically active substances - phytoncides, which are deadly for them.
Sometimes bird cherry flowers were used for bitter alcoholic tinctures. Although more often, of course, they used bird cherry berries for such purposes.
The berries are eaten raw, spitting out the seeds. They knit in the mouth and stain the mouth and hands with black color. They are used in the manufacture of tinctures and liqueurs; boil compotes, jelly; tint wines.
Powdered dry cherry berries are a delicious filling for pies. In addition, in order for rye-wheat bread to acquire an almond smell, bird cherry powder is added to flour when making bread dough. Living in the country, you can bake such bread yourself, pleasantly surprising your family and friends. Or make gingerbread cookies with bird cherry scent.
From the branches and trunks that have served their time, you can make crafts with children, using other natural materials that are so rich in country life.
The healing properties of bird cherry
The main healing property of bird cherry berries, time-tested, is getting rid of diarrhea. Instead of overpaying for medicines at the pharmacy, have a small supply of dried bird cherry. Dry berries do not lose their medicinal properties for five years. It is easy to prepare a decoction from them and give it to a sick person to drink. Berries can be added to tea to add flavor. Fruit juice is used in the treatment of abscesses.
Decoctions and tinctures of bird cherry flowers help with rheumatic pains, gout, are used as a contraceptive, although today the problem of "how to get pregnant?" Is more pressing.
Bird cherry leaves in folk medicine were used as a remedy for coughing, for rinsing rotten teeth, and for treating boils.
For medicinal purposes, a decoction of bird cherry bark is used in the fight against lice, flies; in the treatment of sciatica and eye diseases.
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