The time when bird cherry bloom is special.Firstly, it is a very beautiful sight. Still the trees barely barely spread out the leaves, and here, like explosions of white color - hanging odorous buds of white flowers and swirling swarms of bees above them. People call the bird cherry a beautiful bride. Wearing a smart white decoration, it symbolizes the transition to the hot early summer.
The bird cherry genus includes 20 species of shrubs andtrees. In the middle belt in the gardens common bird cherry, which has black, astringent fruits, and also the virgin, whose berries are red, is common. The most pleasant smell at flowering has a bird cherry.
The flowers of the bird cherry are unusually fragrant and collected inbrushes, reaching a length of 12 cm. She has large leaves. It can often be found in urban parks, among shrubs in damp forests, in the western forest areas of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. In the forest-steppe zones, this plant is less common. Bird cherry is common in the forests of all Europe, and is found in Western Siberia. The wood is dense, firm and elastic, has a rare brownish-black color, which is why it has found application in the lathe and carpentry business.
The cherry fruits have a peculiar astringent taste.Can be eaten, but not raw. Of these, as a rule, prepare a variety of drinks, as well as flour. Of the latter, they make kissels, fillings for pies and vareniki.
What is useful for us?
In addition to beauty and pleasant smell, this treethere are many useful properties that we can use. When cherry blossoms, its flowers contain vitamins C (ascorbic acid), E, P, micro- and macro elements - copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, zinc, etc. The fruits contain 5% of sugars, flavonoids (isokvercetin, rutin), anthocyanins, citric and malic acid.
Flowers cherry, as well as its fruits are used asa good diuretic and cholagogue. They are also used to treat rheumatism, gout, pulmonary tuberculosis, purulent wounds, furunculosis, enterocolitis, conjunctivitis, diarrhea of non-infectious origin, the initial stages of diabetes mellitus.
Bird cherry cold
They say when the bird cherry bloom - they comecooling. Is it true? For a long time people believed that it was the color of the bird cherry that brought with it a cold snap. But people's signs only fix, and do not explain the essence of the phenomenon. In May, when the bird cherry blossoms, there is a return of cold weather, often with snow. The reason is that Arctic air masses from the north of Scandinavia often invade us at this time. And as for the tree itself, the time when bird cherry blossoms, can both coincide with the arrival of these colds, and pass earlier.
If you plant a bird cherry in your garden, this isthe tree will give you fragrant beautiful inflorescences, and then allow you to enjoy the fruits. New varieties of bird cherry have large and not such tart berries, they have a peculiar piquant taste. Biologically active substances that are contained in them slow down the aging process, increase the resistance of the organism to unfavorable conditions of our environment, fruits and flowers contain vitamins and microelements.
