Stone berry
bramble - a perennial herb of the Rosaceae family dlinnochereshkovymi with trifoliate leaves and white flowers. Bramble growing under the canopy of deciduous forest - in the meadows, mountain slopes, among shrubs. Bramble rocky can be found in the Arctic, and in the Caucasus mountains, is growing in Western and Eastern Siberia, Far East and in the mountains of Central Asia and the Tien Shan. It can be found in the forests of European part of Russia. In the northern regions of our country meets the Arctic stone berry, or knyazhenika (raspberry, Mamoura). Berries its large, dark red, fragrant and very tasty, no wonder it is called the northern garnet; for these qualities, it fell into the category of promising to introduce a culture of berry. Sometimes occur in nature, natural hybrids between Arctic bramble and rocky.
The people call it differently: kostyanitsa, stone raspberries, kamenika - albeit tasty, but hard. Apparently, due to the large bones she received her nickname. Taste of the berries is pleasant, tart, like a grenade - and in every berry of the bone, as in pomegranate seed.
bramble leaves collected during flowering, give a wonderful fragrant tea leaves for tea. Scientific medicine is not used, since not been studied chemically: While they found only the ascorbic acid.
Folk medicine uses a bramble in gout and hemorrhoids. She finds application in cosmetics: broth olistvennyh shoots and berries are used for skin diseases, decoction of entire plant with rhizomes are washed my head with dandruff and hair strengthening, for the treatment of seborrhea.
bramble can grow in shady corners of the garden. Multiplies it easy, with rooting vegetative shoots. In bramble is one interesting feature that allows us to assign it to the category of plant-weather forecasters: before the rain leaves straightened, smoothed, and by good weather - fold into a tube.