Berry Handbook

Handbook of berries for beginners.

Without exception, we all love to feast on sweet berries. Increasingly, the berries get us by buying them in the store. If we go out into nature, then we become afraid to pick and eat this or that fruit. At the same time, we are very afraid to consume wild, poisonous berries.

years - multi-seeded fruits with a juicy middle, thin shell and solid bone inside. They are similar to fruit and do not have a fundamental difference.

Berry classification:

1. Real. This category includes typical fruits containing 2 to 5 seeds, with dense skin.

Depending on the number of grains berries divided into: odnokostochkovye (barberry, buckthorn, gumi) dvuhkostochkovye (black nightshade, grapes), trehkostochkovye (asparagus) chetyrehkostochkovye (blueberry, currant, crows eyes) pyatikostochkovye (blueberry, bearberry, cowberry, cranberries ), polycystic (gooseberry, actinidia).

2. False. The pulp of the fruit of this species is formed not from the flower ovary, as usual, but from other parts of the plant (receptacle). To representatives of false berries include: wild rose, strawberry, strawberry.

3. Difficult. Outwardly, each of them is vaguely reminiscent of miniature berries. This group includes the following plants: cloudberries, mulberries, raspberries, blackberries.

Each species has a characteristic set of properties for it, but all garden or wild berries are:

- sources of dietary supplements, vitamins and sugars;

- the strongest immunomodulators;

- energy suppliers;

- “fighters” for the health of the skin, joints, blood vessels, eyes, they reduce inflammation in the body;

- suppliers of water, dulling the feeling of hunger.

Descriptions of berries in the garden encyclopedia

Berries like adults and children. Sweet Blueberries, many-sided Currants with mild sourness or fragrant Blackberry fruits are good both in fresh form and in the form of jam. All of them have useful, and many, for example, Cranberry, and medicinal properties. That is why people from ancient times cultivate and domesticate these plants.