Blackberry bluish
Many people are probably well-known blue-gray blackberry - thorny shrub with prostrate stems prickly, densely interwoven with each other and look like barbed wire. Blackberry bushes are covered with spines that make it impassable thickets. Not without reason in the Transcaucasus fences in villages entirely of blackberries: the cattle will not pass, and a host of cool - not so easy to overcome this fence. The people called ozhinoy blackberry, bramble, Dereza.
In the forests of the Caucasus, on forest edges, clearings to verhnegornogo zone grows blackberries Caucasian. In the Carpathians lives blackberry colored, it can be seen among the shrubs at forest edges, rocky slopes, along river banks, roadsides. In the Baltics, the Upper Volga, Dnieper, the river Don, common in Moldova blackberry Ness, a favorite habitat of forests and forest edges. In Central Asia, you'll find most blackberries Anatolian.
In the middle zone of our country grows mainly blackberry blue-gray - very unassuming and hardy plant. Rhizomes had lived a very long time, and stalks - just 2 years: otplodonosiv, they die, and rise up to replace the new shoots, the same generous and equally thorny ...
fruits of all species of blackberry are not only edible, but also healing. Go "on ozhinu" in the morning and only in sunny weather, as the berry, this exceptionally soft, no seasoning, and eat it fresh or processed the same day. The fruits contain sugars, organic acids, a lot of pectin, fatty oil, vitamins, tannins and pigments. Healing not only fruits but leaves and blackberries - infusion of these is used in intestinal disorders, hemorrhages, as anti-inflammatory and wound-healing agent; good this infusion as a diaphoretic and diuretic, astringent. The people still believed that raspberry-Apricot Tea quench thirst and regulate the activity of the gastrointestinal tract.
Traditional medicine successfully treated crushed leaves or lotions from their broth skin disease - lichen, eczema , chronic sores.
the leaves and fruit of blackberry in cosmetology and dermatology, taking prescription ancient physicians: the leaves are preparing an ointment is used to remove blackheads, decoction of leaves in the form of compression - the perfect remedy for skin diseases, they are rinsed head after washing your hair to strengthen them. On a greased fat cream leather mask positive effects of fresh crushed leaves of blackberry, fruit juice well nourishes the face and neck.
In culture, this plant is well propagated vegetatively.