Gooseberry
on the territory of our country's nature is found 3 species bred many cultivars. The most widely distributed common gooseberry, with large glossy leaves. Fruits (berries) are large, green or reddish, round or oblong, with glandular bristles mature 1,5-2 months after flowering. And it is growing in the Caucasus, in Western Ukraine. Ancestor of many cultivated varieties - the best of them Varshavsky, Bochonochny, Brazilian, etc. Goosebumps iglonosny (needle) is distributed in the Altai, in the western Sayan Dzhungarian Tau. Stems densely covered with thin needle-shaped spines. The fruits are large, bristly, reddish-speckled, fruits abundant but intermittent. It grows on rocks, in crevices, on the banks of mountain rivers, very polymorphic species. And the third type - Far East (Bureinsky) - shoots densely seated spines, especially on large sites. The fruits of the prickly, large. Growing very scattered in mountainous coniferous forests of Primorye Territory. In the Caucasus and in Western Ukraine naturally grows gooseberries rejected, Cultural, in the Volga and the Dnieper, he often encountered in the wild state.
Greatest importance for European culture has a gooseberry - most European varieties derived from this species. Already in the XI century in the monastery gardens planted this bush, among other crops. Its wide cultivation comes at a time of Kievan Rus. At the beginning of XVII century Russia to get the fruits of gooseberry was easier than anywhere else. At the end of XVII century in Moscow millet garden noted: "... between the pillars and ridges between barberry and gooseberries." According to the census in 1701 the palace gardens of Moscow, Aptekarskii garden of 50 bushes "kryzhu. In the Garden "on the island, next to the Tsar's court" was laid down 92 fathoms "kryzhu-Bersenev. Dutch painter De Braine, who visited Moscow in the same year, describing this "Grapes" by Moscow as a strange fruit, said that "natural severnorusskim grapes can be regarded as gooseberries and rowan».
Fruits contain carbohydrates, pectin, vitamins, organic acids, flavonoids, tannins, the leaves contain tannin and dyestuffs.
with a cosmetic purpose of using mashed fruit with cream or sour cream. In the form of a mask put on the face - nourishes and whitens the skin, works well with flabby skin and fotodermitah.
unripe fruit to help get rid of:
acne ;
freckles ;
< p> age spots ;Infusion of leaves strengthens hair roots. Cultivated gooseberries all over the world. Resumes seeds that passeth by birds. Bred from cuttings and layering.