This medium-sized berry is a pleasant red color,which for the most part grows in severe northern latitudes, is known for its amazing useful properties for many centuries. It was not only a delicious treat, but also a very useful healing product, which is still the case today.
About this magic berry always formed legends. She had a rather impressive and appropriate name - "the berry of immortality."
In this article you can see and learn a lotinteresting about this amazing berry called lingonberry: photo, where it grows, description, properties, etc. Also here will be described in more detail near Moscow, rich in thickets of a miraculous plant.
One of the most famous berries, revered by many, belongs to the group of medicinal plants.
Where the berry grows, tell after its description.
Lingonberry is an evergreen small shrub of the Vereskov family. It grows to a height of about 25 cm.
Его листья очередные, кожистые и толстые по structure, hibernating. White-pink bell-bellied flowers with weak gentle pleasant aroma are collected in apical brushes. Bright red fruits are globular - glistening berries with a diameter of 8 mm.
The plant blooms usually from May to June, and the fruits ripen from August to early September. As a rule, cowberry berries from about 2 to 9 pieces sit tight bunch on one brush.
The collection of ripened fruit is usually done withAugust of the month to September, and yields for continuous thickets reach up to three or more centners from one hectare. She's such a cowberry! Where this magically fertile berry grows, we will find out a little later.
Cedarberry usually grows from the 3rd year of life.
To taste, its fruits are quite astringent, astringent andsour, but after the very first frosts they become pleasant, sweet-sour. Now it is grown in many places by huge plantations. By its properties is very useful and popular ordinary cranberries. Where does it grow and why can it be used? About this later, but for now a little about its properties.
Today, many know the benefits of not only fruitscranberries, but also its leaves. And, the latter as a remedy are used more often than fruits. What are the useful properties of lingonberries? Both leaves and berries have antimicrobial and antiseptic properties, and they are widely used as choleretic and antisclerotic agents.
This miracle plant has otherproperties: wound healing, anthelmintic, antiscorbutic. It is also used in the treatment of avitaminosis, enuresis, gout, hypertension, neuroses, rheumatism, tuberculosis, gastritis with low acidity, diarrhea and liver diseases.
We can say that this is the best natural remedy used for kidney diseases and diseases of the urinary tract (with cystitis and urolithiasis).
This plant is also widely used in the sphere ofbeauty. Cowberry extract has a good tonic effect on the skin, increases its elasticity. Also, the broths of the plant perfectly strengthen the hair, contribute to the elimination of dandruff and relieve skin inflammation.
A cowberry, which has a powerful oxidant property, prevents aging. The amazing and magical berries of cranberries! Where such a miracle grows, we will soon find out.
Стоит отметить и то, что постоянное применение berries or syrup is good for improving vision. Infusion, brewed with cranberries, not only perfectly quenches thirst, it also lowers body temperature with colds. Here she is - an amazing cowberry (berry).
This cold-resistant plant in the wildprefers regions with harsh winters and cool summers. And the soil berry prefers the more acid and the poor. It grows usually in coniferous dry and mixed forests, among shrubs, and sometimes also in peat bogs (mostly on peat bogs dried up).
It should be noted the curious fact that these low shrubs can compete with their oaks in their longevity, because they live almost for three hundred years.
Creepers of bilberries can be found in Asia, North America and Europe (northern and central).
Cultivated cranberries first appeared in the 60'syears on the plantations of Russia, Belarus, Germany, USA, Switzerland, Finland, Holland and Poland. Yield on such a cowberry was almost 30 times higher than the natural, wild.
Now, except for Russia, this evergreen plant is well-established in some territories of Ukraine (Carpathians) and Belarus (Polesie).
As noted above, this culture appeared inRussia in the 1960s. Usually the area of the bush covered with smooth leathery leaves is thickets of other bushes, peat bogs and alpine meadows. A lot of red bilberries can be found in the forest.
Where does lingonberries grow in Russia today? Its habitat is mainly coniferous burs mixed (spruce, pine, larch), and sometimes deciduous forests.
As to where the cranberries grow best, thenat the most it is flat areas, mountain taiga belts and coniferous forests of the Far East and Altai. In addition, often in the tundra and forest-tundra, you can find whole shoots of this amazingly delicious sweet and sour berries.
This necessary and useful plant grows evenon the cold shores of the Arctic Ocean and in the harsh conditions of the Urals. Cowberry can be found in the Caucasus Mountains, Karelia, Arkhangelsk and Murmansk regions.
The marshy places of the forests of northern Russia are also a good place for cranberries. And now, in more detail, we will stop at Podmoskovia.
Where grows lingonberries in the suburbs? In general, the vast forests of these places are very rich in a variety of varieties of berries: blueberries, cranberries, raspberries, strawberries, etc. And cowberries are well accustomed to here.
This is not surprising, due to the fact thathere from the north reach the southern spurs of the taiga of the north, and from the south lies the northern border of the oak groves of the south. It was at the junction of the borders of broad-leaved and coniferous forests that a diverse berry flora found its shelter.
The favorite places of red bilberry are moss, peat bogs and heavily swampy pine forests. Basically, these are the floodplain areas of the Suloti and Dubna rivers, as well as the Meshchera in the Shatura area.
In addition, lingonberries also grow on other sites around water bodies overgrown with peat bogs. These are Lake Krugloe and Trostenskoye in the Lotoshino area.
In the above-mentioned places, usually from one hectaremarshes with cranberries for a year can be harvested to a ton of berries. Moreover, the fruits are collected in three terms: September, the beginning of freeze-drying, early spring (April). Cowberry is perfectly preserved throughout the winter.
This amazing berry, as noted above,prefers more dry pine forests, burnt, felling and lighted edges. Therefore, the following forest areas of the Moscow region are very rich in these berries: northern regions - Zagorsky region; eastern - Noginsk, Orekhovo-Zuevsky and Kurovskaya; Western - Volokolamsky and others.
We learned about what the cranberry berry represents, where it grows. Now a little about the composition of this magic berry.
There are carbohydrates, proteins and fats in it.Plant composition: vitamins A, B, E, PP and beta-carotene. Most of all in the berries of vitamin C. There are also different organic acids: oxalic, citric, malic, benzoic, salicylic.
Mineral substances are represented by potassium,sodium, magnesium, iron, manganese, phosphorus and calcium. Also cowberry contains pectin, natural sugars (sucrose, glucose and fructose) and dietary fiber.
Having cowberry berries and applying it to food,always be aware of contraindications. For example, it is moderate to use the fruits of this plant to people suffering from gastritis and high acidity, because the substances contained in it can irritate the mucous membrane of the stomach. This applies to people with cholecystitis.
Also, cranberry leaves and juice from it reducepressure, negatively affect hypotonic. Contraindicated fresh cowberry berries with ulcer of the duodenum and stomach, with stones in the urinary system.
In any case, with moderate proper use of cranberries, there will be more benefit from it than harm.
It should also be noted that this wonderful plant is loved by bees and beekeepers, as it participates in a very important matter - in the production of surprisingly fragrant amber honey.
