Shameless - a resortkeeper in the Crimea, or a unique strawberry tree in the Crimea. Strawberry tree in the Crimea.
TYPE FLORA or the vegetable world.
Sorting pictures from the Abkhaz vacation, my daddy was formed - “The World of Vegetable”. This is about their flora.
Well sho flora? I grew up with her and outlandish, at that time, did not find anything. He stretched out his hand out of the window and ... ate, for example: persimmon, peach, pomegranate or grapes, it happened and chose the variety - kachich or isabella, a walnut tree also grew in the yard. But here, having already lived enough in the middle lane, i.e. in comparison, the subtropics to me, began to seem ... very "completely". Yes, yes, the most northern subtropics in the world, sometimes showing examples of amazing natural fantasy and diversity.
Well, as a preamble, it should be said that all the wealth of the plant world is imported here. At the beginning of the twentieth century, by the efforts of Russian scientists, merchants and patrons of art, especially Smetsky, strange samples of tropical and subtropical cultures were brought to Abkhazia. Eucalyptus from Australia, cypress nuts from Greece, aleander from azure, araucaria from South America, and from there came tobacco, cacti, creepers, tomatoes and corn (by the way mamaliga, made from corn flour, at Abkhz became the main food) and beans. Tea, persimmon and feijoa from China, from Vietnam is a candy tree, and a lot of palm trees and everything came from Africa. In short, very good and fun turned out. And, almost everything, surprisingly, stuck. Here, for example, the “work” of the lianas, which at once (in my opinion, estimates for “this” it took her thirty years), “bit” the concrete colonnade, destroyed by a war café, with the ironic-historical name “Friendship”. And judge the rest of the miracles yourself.
Here is the trunk of the Australian eucalyptus. Sometimes it is called shameless tree. He periodically changes the bark, dropping old robes and, as it were, naked all the time. But seriously this tree is a savior. Previously, the entire coast of Abkhazia was swampy, and then the malaria mosquito raged, the rest in Abkhazia was not so pleasant because of them. Eucalyptus acted as a "pump." Adults consume up to 500 liters of water per day. The swamps dried up and started ... paradise.
In childhood, on their high eucalyptus trunks, the punks are satisfied with "nests".
But fig tree or figs. His seed, even falling into the crack of the house, or garbage, begins to germinate. After fifteen years - a new tree.
This is how it looks from the outside. By the way, the leaves of this tree were used by the artists of the Renaissance, "covering" nature in their paintings, as a rule of biblical content.
Herbal luxury.
Or here ... a front view of the philharmonic.
Planes in the park.
Here so climbers "crawl" to the fifth floor. And even higher ...
Or this is how it enters the wild.
On the fortress wall ... Tenth century.
So they live by sucking the juices of the one who cannot "give an arccase."
Anomaly.
Or ... this is at the Stalin dacha at Lake Ritsa.
That's how the roots raise asphalt.
The road goes along the plane avenue.
That's how the plants "intersect" with stones.
So grows Pomegranate.
But I look at the blank for a pipe. She endured the sea.
In general, there are many picturesque snags on the beach.
Alpine grass.
Flowers among the mountains.
And this plant, I do not know the name.
Pitsunda tall pine.
Fern.
Bamboo alley.
There are also in thicker.
Still life.
In abandoned orchards, trees are "wild". This is in Tsebelda. The sight is wild.
Finita la comedy.
Yellow ...
On the southern coast of the Crimean peninsula in the most inaccessible places and rocky tracts preserved remains of forests of an amazing plant with a very tasty name - a strawberry tree, or, to be precise, strawberry small-fruited.
But, unfortunately, this unique relict plant of the preglacial period, belonging to the heather family, is an endangered species in the Crimea, which, by the way, is the northernmost boundary of its habitat. Now in the wild there are only single trees or small sparse thickets. The largest habitat of strawberry is located on the protected Cape Martian.
Strawberry is a very beautiful evergreen deciduous tree-honey plant with oddly curved branches. It has leathery leaves, and blooms with flowers resembling lily of the valley flowers.
The wrinkled red fruits of small-fruited strawberry are a bit like strawberries. Hence the name of the tree. Another name - shameless - the tree has received for the fact that aging its bark by the middle of summer reddens cracks and exfoliates, exposing the young pistachio-green bark. And this is repeated from year to year.
The strawberry fruits ripen in autumn and have a rather pleasant taste. But the nutritional value in their natural form, they are only for birds.
The strawberry tree, or Arbutus (lat. Arbútus) is an evergreen, a genus of shrubs or of trees families Heather (Ericaceae). In nature, there are about 20 species of strawberries in the Crimea, the Caucasus, the Mediterranean, western Europe and America. Strawberry tree, got its name because of the original shape of the fruit, which are pink-red balls, shaped like strawberries.
In the home room culture of growing common strawberry is large-fruited - a small tree, up to a meter in height.
The strawberry tree growing in nature can reach a height of 5 meters and live for more than 50 years. The bark of the trees is smooth, red or brown, the leaves are leathery and large.
The strawberry tree is decorative and attractive, it is decorated with flowers and fruits at the same time.
Flowers of the Strawberry tree are rather small, resemble inflorescences of lily of the valley, and are collected in panicles. The strawberry tree blossoms in the autumn, and in the winter it is at rest, but does not shed its leaves.
Strawberry is a beautiful melliferous plant, the scent of flowers attracts many insects, but the honey from its flowers is slightly bitter. The flowers of the plant are white, the fruits are orange, and when ripe they turn bright red. The fruits of the strawberry tree are edible, they are very tasty and juicy, consumed raw and used in cooking.
The strawberry tree grows on a bright and warm place, in the choice of soil is not whimsical. It needs regular watering and feeding with complex fertilizers, especially during the period of active growth and ripening of fruits.
Propagated strawberry tree mainly seeds. Seeds can be sown throughout the year. Sowing is superficial, the seeds are lightly powdered with soil or sand, covered with foil and kept in a warm place until germination, which should be sprayed. Strawberry tree grows slowly blooms about a year after sowing.
Wild plant species is small strawberry. Leaves are leathery and smooth, a bit like pear leaves. The barrel is smooth, as polished, bluish-red. Fruits are clusters, bright red, edible.
Small strawberry blossoms in winter his crown is covered with white and elegant flowers almost until the end of March.
In the spring, during the period of fruit ripening, strawberry strips, dropping bark from the trunk and large branches. For this interesting and rare property the tree was popularly called shameless, or "whisper"as in the hot days you can hear the rustling, "whisper" of the dumped strawberry bark.
Unlike large-fruited strawberry, small-fruited can grow on poor and drier soils.
Strawberry tree has found application in medicine. The flowers of the tree have a honey, soft aroma.
English tale of the strawberry tree.
Once a strawberry tree fell in love with a little bird that was nestled in foliage. The bird was very sick, and the strawberry tree, having healing properties and a kind heart, cured it. The bird recovered and flew away, and the tree became sad, having collected all its strength, pulling its roots out of the ground, went to the mountains in search of its beloved bird.
For many years, the strawberry tree climbed to the top of the mountain, the sun was scorching, and the bark was peeling and falling off the trunk, but it could not reach the top of the mountain. Tired tree to climb the stony rocks and said: “Set love” - “love died”, or as the saying goes: “ you can’t be cute by force "...
The strawberry tree is remarkable in that it is the only evergreen deciduous tree in the natural flora of the Crimean subtropics. Its leaves are dense, leathery, shiny, fairly regular oval. They tolerate small frosts in winter.
Walking around Alupka Park is a pleasure! The world of amazingly beautiful rare trees, near which you certainly feel like a little girl ... And it’s not at all the difference in height. Just standing under their crowns very keenly feel that you have one life - your own, and the Strawberry tree has a whole interweaving of lives! The aura of the reddish crown of these trees is such that you feel it all over your skin!
The recipe for making heather honey from heather (Latin Callúna vulgáris), giving people strength and youth.
Heather honey
(Robert Lewis Stevenson. Translated by Samuel Marshak)
From heather drink
Forgotten a long time ago.
And he was sweeter than honey
Drunker than wine.
In boilers it was cooked
And drank the whole family
Baby Medovars
In the caves under the ground.
The Scottish king came,
Ruthless to enemies
He drove the poor Picts
To the rocky shores.
On the heather field
On the battlefield
Lay alive on the dead
And the dead - in the living.
Summer in the country has come,
Heather blooms again,
But there is no one to cook
Heather honey
In their graves close,
In the mountains of the native land
Baby Medovars
Shelter found themselves.
King rides on the slope
Above the sea on horseback
And seagulls hover nearby
With the road on a par.
The king glances glumly:
« Again in the edge of my
Honey heather blooms,
And we do not drink honey! ”
But his vassals
Noticed two
Last medovarov,
Survivors.
They went out from under the stone,
Squinting a white light, -
Old Humpback Dwarf
And a boy of fifteen.
By the sea steep
They were brought in for questioning,
But none of the prisoners
Words are not spoken.
Sat the Scottish king,
Without moving, in the saddle.
And little people
Stood on the ground.
Angrily, the king said:
- The torture of both waits,
If you do not say devils,
How did you cook the honey!
Son and father were silent
Standing at the edge of the cliff.
Heather rang over them,
In the sea - rolling trees.
And suddenly a voice came out:
— Listen, Scottish king,
Talk to you
Let eye to eye!
Old age is afraid of death.
I will buy a life of betrayal,
I will give the treasured secret! —
The dwarf told the king.
His voice is sparse
It sounded sharp and clear:
— I would give the secret a long time ago
If the son did not interfere!
Boy life is not sorry
Death to him nothing.
I sell my conscience
It will be shameful at him.
Let him tightly tie
And cast into the abyss of water,
And I will teach the Scots
Cooking old honey!
Strong scottish warrior
The boy is tightly tied
And threw into the open sea
From the coastal cliffs.
The waves closed over him.
Measure the last cry ...
And echoed him answered
From the cliff of the old father.
—I told the truth, the Scots,
From my son I was waiting for trouble.
I did not believe in the stamina of the young,
No shaving beards.
And I am not afraid of a fire.
Let me die
My holy secret is
My heather honey!
Description eucalyptus round.
The shameless (eucalyptus round) is a tree with a powerful trunk up to 150 meters in height; fast growing, evergreen, belongs to the myrtle family. The bark on the trunk - whitish - gray. A distinctive feature of eucalyptus is that it drops the bark every year. On young branches, the leaves are round, stalked, opposite, as if covered with wax; on the old branches - lanceolate, leathery, alternate. Flowers axillary, solitary. The fruit is a box - a ball with four edges. The tree blooms in autumn, and its seeds ripen in 1.5 - 2 years.
Locations of eucalyptus round eucalyptus globulus label.
A round eucalyptus tree appeared here from Australia. It is quite common in subtropical countries, as well as in Abkhazia and Ajaria.
Medicinal preparations of eucalyptus round.
Tincture of leaves as an antiseptic and anti-inflammatory agent.
Grind the leaves of eucalyptus and pour them with alcohol (1: 5), soak from 9 days to 2 weeks, filter and inhale by adding 10 drops of tincture to the glass. Take it inside 3 p. per day for each dose of 15 drops after meals.
Infusion of leaves.
2 tsp. chopped leaves of eucalyptus tree round brew 200 ml of boiling water, and boil for 1.5 minutes, wait until the infusion has cooled and use for inhalation (for 250 ml of water - 1 tsp. infusion) and to rinse the throat and mouth.
A decoction of the leaves.
Take a tablespoon of finely chopped leaves and pour 250 ml of boiling water in a container with enamel, then boil them on a quiet fire for 3 minutes, soak for 20 minutes, filter. Shake up sediment before taking broth.
Decoction for the treatment of wounds.
First dilute in 250 ml of water 1 tbsp. l decoction of the leaves, and then moisten a swab from gauze and process the skin adjacent to the wound.
This decoction for abscesses, phlegmon, chronic acute myelitis, purulent mastitis, for dressing for chronic trophic ulcers of the leg, for douching. Broth eucalyptus 2 - 3 p. per day inhaled the lungs in diseases of the upper respiratory tract.
Stocking
Leaves of round eucalyptus are subject to preparation.
Chemical composition.
An essential oil was found in the leaves of eucalyptus, containing cineol, caprylic, izvalerianovoy aldehydes, amyl, ethyl and isobutyl alcohols, tannins.
Pharmacological properties.
Eucalyptus oil is a strong antiseptic.
Use in medicine.
Eucalyptus oil is used for fever, pneumonia, bronchitis and other infectious diseases. It is used to treat tongue, fistula, wounds.
Tincture inhibits E. coli. The simultaneous use of tincture and antibiotics helps to heal faster.
P.S. If you solve a crossword puzzle and you get the question - what kind of tree is called shameless, then you should know that, in addition to spherical eucalyptus, they also call small-fruited strawberries that grow in the Crimea.
This strawberry is called in the guidebooks a witness of the foundation of the Nikitsky Botanical Garden. You will find it on the border of the Upper and Lower parks.
The main event of mid-summer in Nikitsky garden - "shameless" dumping bark
Strawberry small-fruited - the only evergreen deciduous tree of the natural flora of the South Coast.
The height of the tree is about six meters, and it looks unusually original and decorative all year round thanks to its thin bark, which does not have a crust - the upper coarse layer. Sometimes it seems that there is no bark at all. But in July, on hot, hot days, you can clearly see how the old coral bark cracks and exfoliates in thin, papyrus-like, flaps, exposing the young, tender, with an ashy shade of olive-green bark. Discharge of old bark is completed by the end of summer. Almost simultaneously with the bark half of last year's leaves fall. And all these metamorphoses occur because strawberry, like many other evergreens, enters in the middle of summer during the period of leaf fall: at the peak of drought, to save moisture, it needs to reduce the evaporating surface, and the renewed green bark begins to replace the missing leaves, performing the function of photosynthesis .
All this looks very impressive, but for this particular feature, the tree has been annually called “shameless”, “resort woman”, “stripper” for this tree.
In Crimea, it grows only on the southern coast, on coastal cliffs and rocky slopes, which have become a kind of refuge for small strawberries. Sometimes there are ancient relics of the Tertiary period. Small strawberry strawberry is listed as a rare and endangered plant in Europe. According to the calculations of scientists, only a few thousand small-fruited strawberry trees have survived in the Crimea, one of the places of its mass growth is the natural boundary of Cape Martyan, declared a natural monument.
Love tree
“Does a love tree grow in the Nikitsky Garden?” Is perhaps one of the most frequently asked questions. Vera Zykova, Head of the Museum of the NBS-NSC, Senior Researcher of the Department of Dendrology, Floriculture and Landscape Architecture usually tells in response about those trees that were considered symbols or patrons of love from different nations: about peach and orange, loved in China, pear and pomegranate from the Mediterranean, about the Kalina revered by the Slavs ...
But it also happens that people claim that they themselves personally saw the tree of love in the Nikitsky Botanical Garden, and then show it to the guides and even tell stories from their lives, in which this tree played a happy and magical role. So, right before our eyes, a legend is born about the Crimean tree of love - small strawberry strawberry.
Strawberry leaves, unusually rich in tannins and tanzanides, were used by locals, especially the Tatars of sheep farmers, to tan expensive leathers.
