Hawthorn blood-red: varieties and application

Hawthorn blood-red, otherwise called hawthorn Siberian, is a shrub or a small tree.

Today many species of hawthorn are known, but the first of them, ennobled, appeared in the XVI-XVII centuries.

Hawthorn. Varieties

The most widespread varieties include hawthorn prickly. This is a tree, whose height is almost 4 meters, with an asymmetrical crown. In natural conditions occurs in Europe, mainly in areas where the marine climate prevails. Sprouting on mountain peaks, sometimes climbing to a height of 1700 meters. The fruit color of this hawthorn is red, rarely yellow or whitish. In Russia, there is no wild thorny hawthorn, and cultivated is sometimes used as a hedge. Especially popular are decorative varieties. Very beautiful hawthorn with double flowers - white, red and pink. The Rubra variety looks spectacular - in the flowering period the bush looks like a continuous carpet of bright red flowers with a white core.

Siberia - the homeland of such a variety as the hawthorn is blood-red. Its fruits are sweet and sour to taste, red, and the autumn leaves are golden and purple. By crossing this variety of hawthorn with ashberry ordinary, Michurin received a "pomegranate mountain ash", with delicious fruits.

The hawthorn is one-tree - this tree is up to six meters tall, grows wild in Eurasia, it has red fruits and white flowers. The plant has a pyramidal crown, weeping or twisted branches, terry and ordinary red, white and pink flowers, mottled leaves. Well decorated parks and garden plots.

Hawthorn softly difficult to miss, thanks to its height (8 m) and a symmetrical tented beautiful crown.

Hawthorn blood red

It looks like a tall shrub or a low tree, whose height reaches 6 m, a trunk with a diameter of up to 10 cm, is covered with brown bark. The branches of the hawthorn are shiny, blood-red or dark. Barbs are firm, thick, straight, up to 5 cm long, 2 mm thick, dark red.

The kidneys are ovoid, completely bare.

The leaves are also ovate, with a pointed apex and a solid base.

Hawthorn. Benefit

Applied as an ornamental plant, especially in autumn and during flowering, so often used as a hedge.

Hardwoods of hawthorn make lathes.

The bark is used as a tanning agent and dye for fabrics.

From the fruit cook jelly and jam, add to the dough to give a pleasant fruity smell.

Hawthorn blood red - frost and shade-tolerant plant. It grows well and gives many fruits in the undergrowth, forests and oak forests, rivers, forests. The hawthorn is blood-red from May to June, fruits of orange or blood-red color ripen in September and October. They are oblong, fleshy, their pulp is mealy.

The fruits of hawthorn contain essential oil, krategin, krutegusovaya acid, tannin, tartaric and citric acid, vitamin C and carotene.

From the fruits of hawthorn, surrogate coffee, tea, jelly, jam are made. In the Caucasus and Kyrgyzstan, fruits are dried, pounded and baked from flour and bread.

In medicine, hawthorn is used for nervous diseases, hypertension, cardiac neuroses.