Dören Swedish: description, can I eat

Dören Swedish is unfamiliar to the inhabitants of Central Russia. This is a northern shrub which is quite rare in natural conditions found on the coast of the Gulf of Finland.

Spread

Dören Swedish in Russia occurs in the northern subzone of the taiga, occasionally in the tundra and forest-tundra, on the islands and coastlines of the Barents and White Seas, and in Chukotka. Outside the country, the area occupies the northern territories of Japan, the Atlantic and the near-Pacific regions of North America.

Prefers dyer Swedish small-leaved and coniferous forests, thick thickets of shrubs. Often this species occupies a dominant position in the ground cover of birch and spruce forests, forming extensive thickets and curtains. In the forests, the dreene, as a rule, adjoins blueberry, siksha, cowberry. Sometimes its stems make their way through the thick of moss. In natural conditions, the Swedish dyer often grows in places with a thick snow cover. This has a favorable effect on its winter hardiness in the harsh climatic conditions of the northern regions. In the mid-latitudes, he too will winter, but he grows in these territories is not very willing.

Growth conditions

Dyerene needs a bit acid, permeable and fertile moist soil. On clay soils, the plant will not have enough air, on the sandy - moisture. Ideal for this plant is peat soil. It is possible to plant Swedish in the garden to plant to heath cultures. The plant needs regular and abundant watering, it is not allowed to dry up the earthy coma.

This plant is very attached to the light day. In the North in the summer, the day is long enough. White nights here are much longer than in St. Petersburg. And the light here is softer than in the middle band: the sun is not so scorching. Therefore, if you want to grow dyerene in the garden, choose for him a bright, but closed from direct sunlight place.

Someone will say that too many demands are made by this small plant. But be sure that its beauty deserves to try to grow such a bush in its garden in the middle latitudes, especially as numerous reviews of gardeners confirm the successful cultivation experience.

Description

Dören Swedish is a small half-shrub with a thin, woody branching rhizome. At the ends of its branches, simple grassy stems develop, which in autumn almost die to the ground. The stems can be six to twenty-five centimeters high. They are tetrahedral, seated with small pressed hairs not too thick.

In the lower part they sometimes are reddish, below there are several pairs of brown scaly leaves, above which 4-6 pairs of green leaves are located. They gradually increase in size to the top of the stem. In the two lower pairs, the kidneys are renewed in the sinuses. Of these, each season develops shoots.

The leaves are light green, sessile, from below they are lighter, smooth, bluish. The upper ones vary in length from one and a half to four and a half centimeters, ovoid with a rounded or wedge-shaped base. On top they are pointed, with two, and sometimes three pairs of lateral veins.

Flowers

In this mass and typical of the forest-tundra and tundra, the plants from the Kizilov family are very unusual flowers. At first glance it may seem that they have four snow-white petals and numerous black stamens. In fact, white petals are bracts. They surround the inflorescence, consisting of a large number of small flowers, which are painted in purple-black. In this way the Swedish dais attracts pollinator insects, which are very few in the early summer in the tundra.

In the inflorescence there are from eight to twenty-five flowers. They are located on short stalks. Their length is not more than 2 mm. Cups are triangular in shape, sharp, much longer than the flat annular disk, smooth. The petals, about 2 mm in length, are narrow-triangular, purple-black, bent down after the flowering, passing into a long pincer. Flowering begins in late May.

Fruits of the Swedish

Fruiting shrubs from late July to early September. During this period the Swedish Deren is transformed beyond recognition. Its berry is very attractive: globular, up to 10 mm in diameter, bright red. Fruits are a bit like lavender bunches. But if there is a hollow at the tip of the bilberry berry, then a black dot is located at this place.

If you are interested, if you can eat them, then we can say that they are not poisonous, but are mealy and tasteless. The medicinal effect of the plant does not possess.

Reproduction

Dören Swedish breeds by dividing the bush, seeds and root offspring. Seeds are usually sown very early, preferably after maturation. They sow them in a greenhouse, in a bowl, which is buried in the ground. And if there is a lot of seeds, then you can try to sow in the open ground.

The seed must be separated from the flesh of the fetus, as it inhibits germination. If the sowing is postponed to spring, the seeds should be stratified for 3-4 months and sown in the early spring. Cold warming is done warm. Germination of old seeds usually passes slowly, and shoots appear unevenly, therefore bushes should be planted next spring.

Dören Swedish: application

Knowing the answers to the questions about whether it is possible to eat berries of this plant, whether it has medicinal properties, many readers will be interested to know where it is used. The shrubby Swedish dyer is excellent for landscape design. It looks great in decorative groups, hedges. It is well combined with other woody plants, especially with purple and red-leaved plants.

On peaty moist soils, it rapidly grows and forms a dense cover, which is unusually beautiful at the time of flowering, when numerous white-cream flowers appear that look like wide-open eyes. In autumn the plant is painted in a magnificent purple color, and the berries become scarlet. Such bushes, no doubt, will decorate any garden plot.