2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
A relative of the Oak, the Beech tree, which has a lot of advantages, also came under the close attention of a "business" person, and therefore the beech forests of the Northern Hemisphere have noticeably thinned out over the centuries
Symbol of health and strength
If speaking about
Oak, people add the adjective"
mighty , then
Beechthe word “
healthy ».
The columnar trunk, covered with light gray thin bark, sweetish in taste, with outstretched thin branches forming a spreading crown, combines health, strength and grace. As soon as you admire the tree, you will feel a surge of strength and vitality. It is not for nothing that people in their congratulatory messages wish the hero of the occasion “to be healthy like a beech”.
The sad side of merit
It seems that when the Almighty created the Beech, his pantries ran out of flaws, and therefore the tree is overflowing with virtues. Unfortunately, the consumer attitude of man to nature has significantly undermined the presence of a plant on the planet, which in favorable conditions can live for 5 centuries, or even more.
Replenishing the loss of beech forests is not easy. The tree grows very slowly, becoming sexually mature by the age of 30-60. Its triangular fruit nuts under a shiny brown shell hide a long list of useful substances that animals and humans are in a hurry to use. After all, they contain sugar, starch, nitrogenous substances, organic acids, fatty oils and much more.
Human use of the virtues of a tree
Where Beech grows, a person does not need the Pine Pine, since the taste qualities of its fruits and the famous Pine Nuts are almost the same. True, if pine nuts can be eaten raw, then Beech fruits require heat treatment to remove a substance harmful to humans from them"
phagina. Therefore, they are fried before eating.
The high content of fatty oils in fruits prompted a person to produce valuable vegetable oil, which can easily replace almond or olive oil. Light yellow beech oil is suitable for baking bread, preserving vegetables and fish products, and making confectionery. It is used by perfumers and doctors.
Traditional medicine has long used beech leaves containing
vitamin "K" … This vitamin helps a person to digest food more efficiently, and also regulates the formation of substances that prevent our blood from leaving the body in case of a slight injury to the skin, helping it to fold.
Unlike Aspen, the smoothness of the trunk of which can be deceiving, revealing a rotten core, Beech wood is distinguished by its density and hardness and surpasses in its business qualities the wood of Oak, renowned by wood craftsmen. This, of course, is beneficial to humans, but for the preservation of the Bukov as a species, it is a real disaster. After all, if only musical instruments were made from Beech wood, it would not be so expensive for wood, but the production of various materials for finishing the premises, the construction of which people increase from year to year, one might say, cuts the genus at the root.
In addition, furniture is made from Beech wood, fireplaces that have become fashionable are stoked, and paper is produced. Working as an accountant, it was always a pity for me to look at the huge piles of papers that conscientious employees of the accounting front write in tons in order to destroy them as unnecessary after 5 years. We even stopped thinking that by inventing countless laws and accounting systems, we are not creating anything, but only destroying. We destroy the age-old beeches and white-stemmed birches (they, at least, grow quickly), unproductively use a huge army of workers who could produce something we need. But this is from a different topic.
Summary
Unpretentious beeches could grow on any soil where there is plenty of warmth and moisture. But they don't like frost. But people have brought the beech forests to complete depletion, and therefore in Europe the remains of the most resistant trees are taken under the protection of caring people.
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