Cowberry where grows in Russia?

This medium-sized berry of pleasant red color, which for the most part grows in severe northern latitudes, is known for its amazing useful properties for many centuries. It was not only a delicious treat, but also a very useful healing product, which is still the case today.

General information

About this magic berry legends were always composed. She had a rather impressive and appropriate name - "the berry of immortality."

In this article you can see and learn a lot of interesting things about this amazing berry called lingonberry: photo, where it grows, description, properties, etc. Also here will be described in more detail near Moscow regions, rich in thickets of a miracle plant.

One of the most famous berries, revered by many, belongs to the group of medicinal plants.

How does lingonberries look like? (A photo)

Where the berry grows, we will tell after its description.

Lingonberry is an evergreen small shrub of the Vereskov family. It grows to a height of about 25 cm.

Its leaves are regular, leathery and thick in structure, wintering. White-pink bell-bellied flowers with a weak tender pleasant aroma are collected in apical brushes. Bright red fruits are globular - shiny berries with a diameter of 8 mm.

The plant blooms usually from May to June, and the fruits ripen from August to early September. As a rule, cowberry berries from about 2 to 9 pieces sit tight bunch on one brush.

The ripening of ripened fruit is usually performed from August to September, and yields for continuous thickets are reached to three or more centners per hectare. She's such a cowberry! Where this magic prolific berry grows, we will find out a little later.

Fruiting cranberry usually begins with the 3rd year of life.

To taste, its fruits are quite astringent, tart and sour, but after the very first frosts they become pleasant, sweet-sour. Now it is grown in many places by huge plantations. By its properties is very useful and popular ordinary cranberries. Where does it grow and why can it be used? About this later, but for now a little about its properties.

Beneficial features

Today, many know the benefits of not only the fruits of cranberries, but also its leaves. And, the latter as a remedy are used more often than fruits. What are the useful properties of lingonberries? Both leaves and berries have antimicrobial and antiseptic properties, and they are widely used as choleretic and antisclerotic agents.

This miracle plant has other properties: wound healing, anthelmintic, antiscorbutic. It is also used in the treatment of avitaminosis, enuresis, gout, hypertension, neuroses, rheumatism, tuberculosis, gastritis with low acidity, diarrhea and liver diseases.

We can say that this is the best natural remedy used for kidney diseases and diseases of the urinary tract (with cystitis and urolithiasis).

This plant is also widely used in the field of beauty. Cowberry extract has a good tonic effect on the skin, increases its elasticity. Also, the broths of the plant perfectly strengthen the hair, contribute to the elimination of dandruff and remove skin inflammation.

A cowberry, which has a powerful oxidant property, prevents aging. Amazing and magical berryberries! Where such a miracle grows, we will soon find out.

It is worth noting that the constant use of berries or syrup is good for improving vision. Infusion, brewed with cranberries, not only perfectly quenches thirst, it also reduces body temperature in colds. This is such a wonderful cowberry (berry).

Where does it grow?

This cold-resistant plant in the wild prefers regions with severe winters and cool summers. And the soil berry prefers the more acid and the poor. It grows usually in coniferous dry and mixed forests, among shrubs, and sometimes on peat bogs (mostly in peat bogs).

It should be noted the curious fact that these low shrubs can compete in their longevity with oak trees, because they live for almost three hundred years.

Cowberry bushes can be found in Asia, North America and Europe (northern and central).

Cultivated cranberries first appeared in the sixties on the plantations of Russia, Belarus, Germany, the USA, Switzerland, Finland, Holland and Poland. Yield on such a cowberry was almost 30 times higher than the natural, wild.

Now, except for Russia, this evergreen plant is well-established in some territories of Ukraine (Carpathians) and Belarus (Polesie).

Berries of Russia

As noted above, this culture appeared in Russia in the 1960s. Usually the area of the bush covered with smooth leathery leaves is a thicket of other bushes, peat bogs and alpine meadows. Quite a lot of red bilberries can be found in the forest.

Where does lingonberries grow in Russia today? Its habitat is mainly coniferous burs mixed (spruce, pine, larch), and sometimes deciduous forests.

As to where the cranberries grow best, then at most they are flat areas, mountain taiga belts and coniferous forests of the Far East and Altai. In addition, often in the tundra and forest-tundra, you can find whole canopies of this amazingly delicious sweet and sour berries.

This necessary and useful plant grows even on the cold shores of the Arctic Ocean and in the harsh conditions of the Urals. Cowberry can be found in the Caucasus Mountains, Karelia, Arkhangelsk and Murmansk regions.

The marshy places of the forests of northern Russia are also a good place for cranberries. And now we will take a closer look at Podmoskovia.

Berry places near Moscow

Where grows lingonberries in the suburbs? In general, the vast forests of these places are very rich in a variety of varieties of berries: blueberries, cranberries, raspberries, strawberries, etc. And cowberry is quite well settled here.

This is not surprising, because here from the north reach the southern spurs of the taiga of the north, and from the south lies the northern boundary of the oak groves of the south. It was at the junction of the borders of broad-leaved and coniferous forests that a diverse berry flora found its shelter.

The favorite places of red bilberry are moss, peat bogs and heavily swampy pine forests. Basically, these are the floodplain areas of the Suloti and Dubna rivers, as well as the Meshchera in the Shatura area.

In addition, lingonberries also grow on other sites around water bodies overgrown with peat bogs. This lake Krugloe and Trostenskoye in the area Lotoshino.

In the above-mentioned places, it is usually possible to harvest up to a ton of berries per hectare of swamps with cranberries per year. Moreover, the fruits are collected in three terms: September, the beginning of freeze-drying, early spring (April). Cowberry is perfectly preserved throughout the winter.

This amazing berry, as noted above, prefers more dry pine forests, burnt, felling and lighted edges. Therefore, the following forest areas of the Moscow region are very rich in these berries: the northern regions are the Zagorsky region; Eastern - Noginsk, Orekhovo-Zuevsky and Kurovskaya; Western - Volokolamsky and others.

A little about the composition

We learned about what the cranberry berry is, where it grows. Now a little about the composition of this magic berry.

There are carbohydrates, proteins and fats in it. Plant composition: vitamins A, B, E, PP and beta-carotene. Most of all in the berries of vitamin C. There are also different organic acids: oxalic, citric, malic, benzoic, salicylic.

Mineral substances are represented by potassium, sodium, magnesium, iron, manganese, phosphorus and calcium. Also cowberry contains pectin, natural sugars (sucrose, glucose and fructose) and dietary fiber.

About contraindications in use

Having cowberry berries and applying it to food, one should always remember about contraindications. For example, it is moderate to use the fruits of this plant to people suffering from gastritis and high acidity, because the substances contained in it can irritate the mucous membrane of the stomach. This applies to people with cholecystitis.

Also, leaves of cranberries and juice from it reduce pressure, negatively affect hypotonic. Contraindicated fresh cowberry berries with ulcer of the duodenum and stomach, with stones in the urinary system.

Conclusion

In any case, with a moderate correct use of cranberries, the benefits from it will be greater than harm.

It should also be noted that this wonderful plant is loved by bees and beekeepers, as it participates in a very important matter - in the production of surprisingly aromatic amber honey.