Blueberries topyanaya

A small branched shrub of the family cranberry, reaching 120 centimeters in height, the closer to the north, the more it becomes a low-growing plant. For the first time blooming pink pitchers in the 11 - 18 years old and lived a long time - more than 90 years. Blueberries can meet in the most unexpected places, growing even on dry stony ground and climbs into the mountains to 3000 meters above sea level. This rich forest berries to our middle zone, the forests of Siberia and the Far East, striking an abundance of blueberries and arctic tundra zone of the island.

Blueberries, dove gonobobel, Sinica - their vernacular names, these plants was due to the large blue, covered with blue bloom berries.

Krupp, delicious, elegant blueberry. In the bushes she keeps for a long time, the whole of September, grabbing, and sometimes October. Gathering berries, we must take care of the plant. Blueberries are so tender and tasty that even in the fresh form is considered a great delicacy. And useful to the same: the fruits are carbohydrates, vitamins, carotene, organic acids, tannin, trace elements, leaves contain arbutin, and flavonoids. Blueberry juice or broth made from dried grapes - try febrifuge, and the list due to the tannin content is used as an astringent, anti-inflammatory agent in folk medicine.

Apply the fruits and leaves of blueberry with cosmetic purposes: decoction of leaves in the form of compresses, bathing - skin diseases, burns, sweating hands and feet, mainly as an astringent and antiinflammatory. Fruits are also in powdered form or as a broth - as compressors, lotions for treatment of burns, frostbite, and weeping eczema, denies, in the form of rinses with inflammation of the oral cavity and larynx. Juice of ripe berries with cream cheese or sour cream nourishes the face and neck.

U.S. and Canadian blueberries are cultivated in a production environment, and it bears fruit for many decades, mostly bred two types - low blueberries and blueberry high. Blueberries can be grown by seeds and by rhizomes, plant unpretentious: he loves the sun but grows well in shade, and prefers acidic soil, very widespread.