The forest is full of berries, which are appreciated for their excellent taste and medicinal qualities. They contain a large amount of nutrients and vitamins. But along with edible berries, poisonous berries also grow in the forest, which can be harmful to health.
Instructions
Step 1
The first most popular, fragrant and tasty wild berry - strawberries grow in open woodlands in sunny meadows, they are unusually fragrant, tender and healthy. It contains: volatile oils, organic acids. The medicinal properties of berries have long been known - they help with a breakdown. It ripens one of the first, at the end of June, drooping red berries on green leaves look very decorative.
Step 2
A delicious inhabitant of coniferous forests - blueberries, from the lingonberry family. In the shade of northern pine forests, with juniper undergrowth, berry thickets stretch for many kilometers. The fruit has a rounded shape of black-gray color. The pulp is reddish-purple, sweet and sour, and has a pleasant taste. Berries have medicinal value, they contain folic, citric, malic acids, vitamin C.
Step 3
He loves shady, moist places of the bone - northern pomegranate. Drupe seed fruit consists of several drupe berries of a faded red color, very juicy, well quenched thirst. Boneberry is undeservedly deprived of attention, it is rich in flavonoids, vitamin C. This wonderful berry improves metabolism, strengthens the walls of blood vessels.
Step 4
Raspberry does not need any recommendations - thickets of this berry are found in windbreaks, in clearings and forest edges. Forest raspberries differ from garden raspberries in their aroma and wonderful taste. Forest raspberries are widely used in folk medicine, all parts are used - dry berries are used as a diaphoretic and antipyretic agent for colds, conjunctivitis is treated with a decoction of flowers.
Step 5
Blackberries grow on wet edges or clearings. The blackberry fruits are blue-black in color, similar in shape to raspberries, exceptionally tasty, fragrant. The shrub is covered with thorns, so picking berries is difficult.
Step 6
The forests delight with an abundance of lingonberries - this is an ever-green undersized shrub with leathery leaves. Lingonberry blooms in early summer, flowers are collected in a brush. Unripe fruits are white, when ripe (August-September) they are dark red, shiny. The berries taste sweet and sour, slightly bitter.
Step 7
Black elderberry is widespread as an undergrowth in coniferous and deciduous forests of the European part of Russia. This plant is famous for its medicinal properties. For medicinal purposes, flowers and elderberries are harvested.
