2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Many gardeners are constantly discovering exotic and unusual plants for themselves. Sunberry is one of these "unique", Americans call it the sun berry
Gardeners of the world have already appreciated the dietary properties of this berry and its medicinal qualities. Sunberry is gaining popularity in Russia as well, successfully settling down in summer cottages.
The sun berry is a plant hybrid of nightshade, which arose as a result of crossing and many years of work by the American scientist Luther Burbank. Sunberry's parents are European creeping nightshade and African nightshade. A native of South America combines only the best characteristics of the parental forms, is unpretentious to growing conditions, has a good yield of large-fruited berries and excellent taste. Sunberry is a strong plant, has a fast growth rate, flowers and fruits abundantly.
Benefits of Sunberry
Sunberry berries contain a set of biologically active components that have a healing effect on the body. The sun berry is recommended for use in case of poisoning, intestinal diseases, as it contains a unique amount of pectins - a natural laxative. Herbal preparations, with the composition of which the sunberry is included, are used to treat the liver and at the moments of a feast, when they consume a large amount of fatty and high-calorie foods.
A storehouse of useful elements of the sun berry helps with gout, relieve inflammation in arthritis, pneumonia, hemorrhoids, psoriasis. Having eaten a sunberry berry, the headache disappears, the itching in the body is eliminated. With a daily monthly consumption of 5 - 6 berries, blood pressure is normalized. With hypertension every morning, have breakfast with sunberry jam, five tablespoons of jam a day for a month remove toxins and poisons from the body. Compote from these berries has a diuretic effect.
Sunberry is also called "youthful" berries, because they contain vitamin C, which supports immunity, has an anti-cancer effect, ensures the health of blood vessels, while slowing down the aging process. The antimicrobial properties of the berry are useful for combating acute respiratory infections.
Provitamin A contained in the sun berry is a powerful antioxidant that fights toxins. The chemical composition of the berry is saturated with calcium, potassium, magnesium, iron and contains more rare elements of the periodic system. Manganese has a positive effect on the process of hematopoiesis. Nickel, copper, manganese, selenium normalize hemoglobin synthesis and affect hematopoiesis and the formation of new erythrocytes. Sunberries even contain silver, which is essential to fight infections.
Description
The Latin name for Sunberry is Solanum retroflexum. The plant itself is a branchy bush of the nightshade family. There are many rumors surrounding this overseas berry. Some illiterate sellers advertise the sun berry very controversially, calling it "tall garden blueberries." In fact, this is not the case. Sunberry is the South American sister of the well-known nightshade. Sunberry shoots reach a height of up to two meters, but such giants are rare. The average length of a large tetrahedral stem is 70 cm. During long flowering, the Sunberry is very decorative, thanks to the blossoming lacy white flowers.
At the end of September, you can already feast on ripe sunberries, which resemble blueberries in their appearance. The large, shiny berries, similar in size to a large cherry, are eye-catching. One bush of the plant is very fertile, from five bushes of the first years they collect a bucket of fruits.
The berries grow in bunches and, when fresh, have a specific taste. Often picking a berry and feeling freshness, people spit it out and think that it is not tasty. But the fact is, Sunberry is only good when boiled or otherwise cooked.
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