When the bird cherry blooms

The time when bird cherry bloom is special. First, it is a very beautiful sight. Still the trees barely barely spread out the leaves, and here, like explosions of white color - hanging odorous buds of white flowers and swirling swarms of bees above them. People call the bird cherry a beautiful bride. Putting on the elegant white decoration, it symbolizes the transition to the hot early summer.

The bird cherry genus includes 20 species of shrubs and trees. In the middle belt in the gardens common bird cherry, which has black, astringent fruits, and also the virgin, whose berries are red, is common . The most pleasant smell at flowering has a bird cherry.

The flowers of the bird cherry are unusually fragrant and collected in a brush, reaching a length of 12 cm. She has large leaves. It can often be found in city parks, among shrubs in damp forests, in the western forest areas of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. In the forest-steppe zones, this plant is less common. Bird cherry is common in the forests of all Europe, and is found in Western Siberia. The wood is dense, firm and elastic, has a rare brownish-black color, which is why it was used in turning and carpentry.

The cherry fruits have a peculiar astringent taste. Can be used for food, but not in raw form. Of these, as a rule, prepare a variety of drinks, as well as flour. Of the latter do the kissels, fillings for pies and vareniki.

What is useful for us?

In addition to beauty and pleasant smell, this tree has many useful properties that we can use. When cherry blooms, its flowers contain vitamins C (ascorbic acid), E, P, micro- and macro elements - copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, zinc, etc. The fruits contain 5% of sugars, flavonoids (isokvercetin, rutin), Anthocyanins, citric and malic acid.

Flowers cherry, as well as its fruits are used as a good diuretic and cholagogue. They are also used to treat rheumatism, gout, pulmonary tuberculosis, purulent wounds, furunculosis, enterocolitis, conjunctivitis, diarrhea of non-infectious origin, the initial stages of diabetes mellitus.

Bird cherry cold

They say that when the bird cherry blossoms, cold snaps come. Is it true? For a long time people believed that it was the color of the bird cherry that brought with it a cold snap. But people's signs only fix, but do not explain the essence of the phenomenon. In May, when the bird cherry blossoms, there is a return of cold weather, often with snow. The reason is that Arctic air masses from the north of Scandinavia often invade us at this time. And as for the tree itself, the time when bird cherry blossoms, can both coincide with the arrival of these colds, and pass before.

If you plant a bird cherry tree in your garden, this tree will give you fragrant beautiful inflorescences, and then allow you to enjoy the fruits. New varieties of bird cherry have large and not so tart berries, they have a peculiar piquant taste. Biologically active substances that are contained in them, slow down the aging process, increase the body's resistance to adverse environmental conditions, fruits and flowers contain vitamins and trace elements.