Plum
Rhode plum belongs to the family Rosaceae, and has over 30 species, widespread in the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere. In the country occurs in the wild and cultivated about 10 species. This shrub or small tree with elliptic or oblong-ovate leaves ordinary. The fruits are fleshy with odnokostyanki juicy pericarp.In our country grows in the wild plum, plum or splayed. Wild plum grows in mixed forests in Central Asia and the Caucasus. In the mountain goes up to 2000 meters above sea level. Widely bred in the south of the country. Plum fruits since ancient times used the peoples of Asia and Europe as food. There are several kinds of plums. But as the crop is known relatively recently. The primary focus of culture plum called the Caucasus, along with the adjoining foreign territories belonging to Turkey and Iran, the second focus of western Georgia, and the third - the Balkans, where there were varieties with presnovatym taste of fruit pulp.
Second wild plums can be regarded as blackthorn (turn). In a prickly bush grows in forests, on forest edges, gullies, scrub forest and steppe in the European part, in the Crimea and the Caucasus, climbing the mountains. Quite winter-hardy and light-requiring. Fruits of sour-sweet, astringent. Some authors attribute it in Latin - "burning coal", "fever" or Greek "fire" because of the color of plum fruit, while others - from the Latin word "frost", "frost" because of the raid on plum fruit resembling hoarfrost.
in the overall balance of fruit stone rock drainage ranks second after cherries. It is very popular among almost all peoples, at least in the form of dried fruit, well known as prunes. Like many fruits, plum used in both fresh and in processed form. Fruits plums contain a diversity of biologically active compounds, from vitamins to dyes, so they can be used as a food and with medicine.
And nowadays are turning to plum fruit, use fruit as a laxative.
In cosmetics consume fruit pulp drain as wild and cultivated. To this end, we can take off any flush, and we have cultivated plum home, Fergana, Simone, a Chinese, Ussuri, American, black, etc. Since the fruit pulp is rich in vitamins, C1, B1, riboflavin, it can be used for removing red faces at dermatoses, eczema, face and ears, acne, with early hair loss can enjoy the fruits and a decoction of the leaves.
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