Sumac sumac tanning and leather

Sumac leather - one of the representatives of its kind. It branched deciduous shrub with dark green oval leaves, which by the end of the summer are pinkish-red color. When you look at it from afar, it is perceived as something very beautiful, the air and attractive ... Increases in Moldova and Ukraine, Crimea and the Caucasus, but feels good and when growing in the middle lane. Under natural conditions, growing on forest edges, among shrubs and woodlands, rising sometimes into the mountains. Widely used in shelterbelts and other plantations in the southern regions of our country.

Sumac tanning - also a representative of his true, more abundant genus (the genus includes about 250 species). This tree or shrub is larger than sumac. The leaves of sumac imparipinnate, in appearance and sumac sumac quite dissimilar, and it's hard to imagine that they belong to one family.

Blooms in June - July, and sometimes a secondary bloom. A growing wild in the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Crimea, prefers dry slopes, common in thickets suholyubivyh shrubs that have arisen in place of deforestation.

sumac leaves and sumac from the ancient time until the present time are to receive technical and medical tannin. The first of these is used for tanning, and the second - in medicine as an astringent, anti-inflammatory and microbicides. The leaves and flowers of sumac tanning contain up to 0.2 percent essential oil used in perfumery.

Tannins in sumac are rich not only leaves but also the twigs and bark of tree trunks used for tanning sheep, goat and calf skins . The leaves are sumac and ivy provide (as a tincture or decoction), astringent, anti-hemostatic effect and are used by cosmetologists and dermatologists almost exclusively externally for skin diseases like wound healing, tumors due to frostbite, with sweating feet, burns, and boils, as well as for mouthwash for toothache and bleeding gums. The broth is prepared in a ratio of 10:100 and used as compresses, gargles, baths, eat at shirokoporistoy skin, helps with oily greasy face, seborrheic dermatitis.

Leaves can be harvested throughout the summer, at one place - within 2-3 years. Drying of raw materials - usually, but as an exception to the general rule they can be dried and the sun.

Sumac are well propagated by seeds and vegetatively - provides ample growth from the stump, rooted by layering, cuttings divorces. Seeds for spring planting needs to be stratified. Growing rapidly, especially at an early age - to 3 years up to a height of 2 meters. Can grow on various soils, to make dry and some salinity, but very light-requiring. Sumac is mainly propagated vegetatively. Heat-loving, drought-resistant, but can make frost down to -20 œ C at -25 œ C elevated portion of it freezes, but then again grows.