What edible berries are there in the forest: photos and list. Edible and inedible plants in the forest. What berries are there in the forest?

It's cold here today. In the morning it was -32 in some places. Therefore, it brings back all sorts of summer memories.
I'll try to systematize something. In geology this is called winter office work.
Some of the photos are mine, some are not.

Shrubs

forest cherry
The main undergrowth of birch forests in the Southern and Middle Urals. There are years when it makes you feel red. Forest cherries, although smaller than garden cherries, are much more fragrant.

Forest blackcurrant
Loves the banks of rivers and lakes, wet forests, and the edges of swamps. Unlike garden varieties, it is practically not susceptible to diseases and frost, therefore it is often used by Ural breeders as the basis for local cultivars. Wild berries are small.
Currants have diaphoretic, diuretic and fixative properties. Leaves, buds and fruits black currant have a disinfectant effect associated with essential oils.

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Forest raspberry
Undergrowth sometimes grows in mixed Ural forests, and even in pure pine forests. The berries are very fragrant. The fruits and leaves are used for colds, flu, and as an antipyretic.


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Forest sea buckthorn
Grows along the banks of lakes, rivers, and streams. Sand loves it very much. Berries are very useful. Stimulate restoration processes in soft tissues, including liver cells after alcohol intoxication, increases protein content in the liver, regulates fat metabolism, and prevents the development of atherosclerosis.
Forest animals and birds love these berries very much. Especially those who winter here.

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Rose hip
Undergrowth in deciduous forests. The fruits contain a lot of tannin.

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Irga
Adapts to almost any conditions, but sunny edges are better, of course. Blooms early, flowers can withstand frost. The berries are sweet, contain a lot of pectin, and are perfect for various marmalades, jellies... Birds adore shadberry, so you will have to fight for the harvest.

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Kalina
It tolerates our frosts easily, but is light-loving, so it is more often found near water in the forest-steppe. Although I have also met her in not very dark coniferous forests.
In folk medicine, everything is used except the root. It’s too long to even list. I recommend that ladies inquire about this plant, which is very useful for us.

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Rowan
It is frost-resistant and shade-tolerant, so it grows everywhere. The fruits are used in medicine as a multivitamin and carotene-containing raw material. To use them in their natural form, it is better to collect them after frost, when the bitterness goes away.

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Bird cherry
It loves damp places, so it grows along the banks and in lowlands. In folk medicine, fruits, bark, leaves, flowers are used... you need to read.

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Hawthorn
Grows in bushes, along the edges, in rare deciduous and pine forests, in river areas, on screes and outcrops. Grows slowly, shade-tolerant, drought-resistant, frost-resistant. Fruits and flowers are used in folk medicine for rheumatism, edema, atherosclerosis, increased function thyroid gland, migraine, mental disorders in menopause, epilepsy, hypertension.


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Blue honeysuckle
Please do not confuse them with red and yellow - they are poisonous. Blue wild honeysuckle grows in the undergrowth of coniferous and mixed forests of the Middle Urals and its more northern regions. The berries are dark blue with a bluish bloom, edible and valued for their delicate aroma and bitter-sour taste, reminiscent of blueberries. Honeysuckle blooms very early. Flowers can withstand temperatures down to -6 below zero. Therefore, it is the most important honey plant. Bushes in early spring just buzzing with bees.

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Cowberry
Actually, it's a shrub. Just a short, short one from the heather family. I think it's evergreen. There is a thawed patch in the spring, and there are green lingonberry leaves. Whole lingonberries are also used. And leaves and berries. Many uses. Useful plant.

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Cranberry
Believe it or not, it is also a heather shrub, only its branches are thread-like and creeping. It really needs water, so it grows in swamps. The berries are used as an anti-scorbutic remedy for colds, rheumatism, sore throat, vitamin deficiency. The leaves can be used as tea.

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Blueberry
Another heather shrub. I won’t talk about the taste of the berries. You know him.
The fresh berry is considered useful in treating scurvy. Both berries and blueberry leaves are used in medicine. They are used mainly for eye diseases, gastrointestinal tract, diabetes mellitus and in gerontology, as well as topically in the treatment of burns and ulcers, stomatitis and gingivitis. Leaves and shoots are used in early forms of diabetes, since the glycoside neomyrtillin they contain has the ability to lower blood sugar

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Blueberry
Again a heather shrub, but already 50 cm high. Sometimes up to a meter. Unlike blueberries, the stem becomes woody almost to the top. In appearance (especially due to the similarity of the leaves), blueberries can be confused with blueberries. Blueberries differ from blueberries in having lighter stems and the shape of the receptacle on the berry: in blueberries it is smooth, almost round, in blueberries it is more broken; The taste of blueberries and blueberries is also very different. Blueberry juice is colorless. The taste is not bright, so in desserts it is recommended to mix blueberries with berries that have a brighter taste: blueberries, lingonberries, cranberries.

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Herbaceous

Wild strawberry
Herbaceous plant. Prefers clearings, edges, clearings and cleared forests. Berries are very tasty - a favorite dessert. An aqueous infusion of wild strawberry leaves is used as a diuretic for urolithiasis and gallstone diseases.

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Wild strawberry
Herbaceous plant. The leaves are larger than those of strawberries and fluffier. Hardier. It can grow in dense grass, but prefers to be mowed. In folk medicine, infusions of fruits and leaves are used as a diuretic and diaphoretic, for colds and anemia. Yes, and it is very tasty. And the smell is simply mind-blowing!


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Stone berry
Herbaceous plant. Sweet and sour aromatic berries. Very useful for anemia and colds. In folk medicine, a decoction of leaves and stems is used for diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, tumors, gout, inflammation of the joints and as an antiscorbutic agent. In Siberia, infusions of leaves are used as a cardiac analgesic, for migraines, dandruff, to strengthen hair and as a sedative.
Stores perfectly just sprinkled with sugar. The most delicious thing I remember from childhood.

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Prince
Grows in the northern regions of the Urals. Frost-resistant. The fruit is a juicy multi-drupe, sweet in taste when ripe, similar in size and shape to an ordinary raspberry, but its color is more complex. The aroma of ripe berries is reminiscent a pineapple . Very tasty.
Princess juice helps reduce temperature and quenches thirst. Recommended as a tonic and strengthening agent. The leaves can be used as tea.

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Cloudberry
"Royal berry" Prefers northern regions. North of the Middle Urals and Subpolar Urals. Swampy places.
The fruit is a clustered drupe with a diameter of 1.5 cm, its shape resembles raspberries, but has a special smell and taste, and is sweet; unripe berries are red, and ripe ones are orange color, almost transparent, reminiscent of pure bright amber. The berries change color three times. Very tasty and healthy. Cloudberries contain three times more vitamin C than oranges. The taiga residents also respect her. Its habitat is the favorite pasture of white partridges and wood grouse.
Cloudberry berries have antimicrobial, diaphoretic, antispasmodic effects. In terms of provitamin A content, cloudberries are superior to carrots. Cloudberry is a source of tocopherols, which are necessary for normal course pregnancy and birth healthy child. The fruits can be used as an aid in the treatment of vitamin deficiencies and hypovitaminosis. Cloudberry juice is applied to areas of the skin affected by scabies. Cloudberry is effective in treating non-healing wounds. In this case, berries and other parts of the plant are used: leaves, roots, sepals.

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So... What did I forget? Who is local, Ural?
What grows in your forests?

Russian forest! You will not find other landscapes as rich in colors, tones, shades as the forests of Russia. There are proverbs and riddles about the Russian forest; songs and poems are dedicated to it. How many works are dedicated to him by Russian artists and writers.

Its importance in a person’s life cannot be underestimated. Forests protect reservoirs from shallowing and fields from drying out. The forest is a break from the noise and dust of city streets, coolness in the summer heat.

In addition, our forests are rich in medicinal plants, mushrooms, and berries. Residents of cities and towns flock to forest clearings and clearings during the wild harvest season.

But in addition to a wonderful pastime, nature constantly tests a person. It is not enough to love her, to admire her. You should know and understand it well. After all, many people know about cases of poisoning due to accidental consumption of poisonous inedible plants.

In order not to ruin your mood or harm your health, let's talk today about forest plants with edible fruits. Although the picking season for most berries and fruits has already passed, this topic is very important. Winter months They will fly by quickly, spring will end, summer will come, and we will go to the forest again to pick berries. But next time we will be more careful, we will learn to distinguish between healthy edible forest fruits and poisonous ones. This is especially important for our children.

So, let’s look at the most common forest plants with non-edible fruits found in our forests:

. The plant is one of the most toxic. Hemlock root is very similar appearance horseradish root. The smell is also very similar. The leaves of the plant are similar to those of garden parsley; the seeds are sometimes mistaken for anise fruits.

The plant prefers to settle in wastelands, along roads, in forest ravines, and in clearings. It can often be found in gardens and orchards. Hemlock contains poisonous alkaloids; coniine, which is part of the plant, is especially dangerous.

(cicuta). The plant smells deliciously like carrots, but the taste is the same. Its tubers resemble turnips or rutabaga in appearance. The plant is large, its tubular stems can reach one and a half meters in height. Vekh poisonous grows along the banks of reservoirs, rivers, lakes, and is found in swampy meadows. Moreover, it can grow directly in water.

The plant is poisonous. It contains the strongest nerve poison – cicutotoxin.

(daphne, wolfberry, thistle)- one of the most dangerous plants in the Russian forest. Moreover, the berries of this bush are especially poisonous. But when the low daphne bush blooms in April, you will admire it! You just want to inhale the aroma of fragrant scarlet flowers, the smell of which is reminiscent of lilac.

But the aroma is so intoxicating that you can forget the way home! Thistle grows in a leafless forest, in clearings brightly lit by the sun.

The plant is poisonous without exception. Its bark contains a poisonous yellowish resin called meserein. But the most dangerous are the berries of the wolf's bast.

Ten to fifteen pieces of berries eaten - lethal dose for a person. In addition to meserein, the berries contain coccognin, which can cause very serious poisoning.

If a person is poisoned, has a convulsion, his pupils are dilated, he has lost consciousness, he should immediately cleanse his stomach and give him water with ice to drink. After vomiting, drink jelly and a decoction of flaxseed. After which the patient should be urgently taken to the hospital.

It is children who most often suffer from wolf bast. Due to ignorance, the berries can easily be mistaken for red currants. Therefore, explain to children that berries are inedible and dangerous, and red currants do not grow in our forests.

. This wonderful, pretty plant is actively used in medicine. Drops prepared from the plant soothe and strengthen the heart. But lily of the valley is also a poisonous plant. Its inedible red fruits, which often catch the eye in the August forest, are especially dangerous.

The plant has an intoxicating smell, as if warning: dangerous, don’t come near.

- a herb closely related to lily of the valley. The plant gets its name from the shiny black berry at the tip of the stem. There is always one fruit per whole low bush, black in color with a bluish sheath.

Of course, the fruit of the plant is inedible. The plant contains the poisonous saponin parastifin. The fruit damages cardiac activity, the leaves have an antispasmodic effect, the root can cause vomiting.

Naturally, contact with the plant is unacceptable! Show it to the children, explain that the plant is very dangerous.

Voronets its appearance resembles an elderberry. The entire plant has toxic properties. The fruits of the crow are black or red, drooping small brushes. They are inedible and can cause severe poisoning.

Walking through the forest, breathing fresh forest air, don't let your guard down. Forest plants with inedible fruits can cause serious harm to health.

In addition to those listed, there are also the fruits of the swamp whitewing (they are red, similar to the cob), kupena officinalis with dark blue fruits, and bittersweet nightshade growing between the bushes.

Be careful and keep children away from contact with unfamiliar plants. Teach them to identify plants with inedible fruits. Remember, whoever can distinguish them is out of danger in the forest.

Poisonous berry

Getting into the forest during the ripening season of berries and mushrooms, the inexperienced layman forgets that not all of them are edible and safe. From all the variety of berry plants, it is necessary to distinguish those that hide their poisonous “nature” behind their attractive and bright shell. You need to know this yourself and explain it to your children. Despite the fact that it is often recommended to eat only forest berry, which has been eaten by animals or birds, this recommendation is not correct. Some types of berry fruits that are dangerous to humans are eaten by animals without any consequences for themselves, so this is not an indicator of their harmlessness. The classification and photos of poisonous berries are presented below.

The main signs of intoxication caused by poisonous berries are: convulsions, cramps, rapid heartbeat, difficulty breathing, irritation of the gastrointestinal tract, depression of consciousness, dizziness. If such symptoms appear, the first step is to provide the victim with rest and cleanse the stomach. To do this, you need to drink 2-4 glasses of water with activated carbon diluted in it (2 tablespoons per 500 ml), salt or potassium permanganate (1 teaspoon per 500 ml). Repeated repetition of this procedure will help induce vomiting and empty the stomach of the toxic substance. If you have a first aid kit with you, the victim needs to take a heart remedy, as well as any laxative. If you don’t have a first aid kit at hand, black bread crackers, starch or milk will help. The victim must be provided with warmth and qualified medical assistance as soon as possible.

Poisonous berries: photos and names

To distinguish inedible fruits from ordinary ones, you need to remember their type and shape. Poisonous wild berries can not only cause intoxication of varying severity, but also death. Therefore, while in the forest, under no circumstances should you eat or touch the fruits of unfamiliar shrubs and trees with your bare hands.

The classification of which berries are poisonous and inedible, which are most often found in our forests, is as follows:

1. Wolf's Bast

Wolf berries

These poisonous forest berries are also popularly called wolfberries. This is a shrubby plant growing in mixed forests. In spring it blooms with beautiful inflorescences, very similar to lilac flowers. But even the long-lasting smell of this plant can cause headache, cough, sneezing and runny nose. In autumn, a poisonous red elongated berry appears. It is undesirable not only to consume it, but even to touch it. The bark of this plant is also poisonous, which can cause blisters and ulcers on the surface of the skin.

1. Nightshade bittersweet

The shrub grows near water bodies, in damp ravines, and oak forests. In folk medicine, nightshade fruits are used for treatment, but self-consumption is fraught with poisoning. Both its red oval fruits and leaves, which emit an unpleasant aroma, are dangerous. The bitter fruits are juicy, with many seeds; all the greenery on the bush is also poisonous.

Nightshade bittersweet (red)

The only toxic black nightshade berries are unripe fruits. Completely ripe fruits can be eaten; they contain a large number of vitamin C, the leaves are also eaten boiled. The fruits are round, black, the flesh is black-violet, and contain difficult-to-remove dyes. Fresh fruits emit an unpleasant aroma. Nightshade is found not only in forests, but also near ponds, ravines, and roadsides. You can even make jam from the fruits of black nightshade.

It is found in dry forests, coniferous and birch, as well as in meadows, forest edges, steppe zones. This is a small plant (up to 65 cm) with spherical blue-black or red fruits, pointed leaves and white drooping flowers. When consumed or touched, symptoms of poisoning occur with gastrointestinal upset, headaches, and shortness of breath.

A low plant with one straight stem on which one fruit ripens round shape and black. The berry has a bitter taste and unpleasant odor. Grows in coniferous and mixed forests, among shrubs. The fruits, leaves and rhizomes of the plant are equally dangerous from poisoning, the signs of which are respiratory arrest, intestinal irritation, and cardiac dysfunction. The leaves affect the human nervous system and can cause paralysis. ethnoscience uses raven eye to treat boils, to lubricate various wounds, alcohol tincture and a decoction of the leaves treats pulmonary tuberculosis.

Everyone famous flower Lily of the valley has poisonous wild berries of red or orange color. The fruits ripen from August to September, their consumption causes convulsions, nausea, dizziness, and cardiac dysfunction. The flowers have a pungent but pleasant smell. Medicine uses May lily of the valley to treat cardiovascular diseases. But self-medication is not recommended, just like eating fruits or placing bouquets indoors.

A plant with large cup-shaped leaves on which red berries ripen, collected in a large bunch. Grows in marshy areas. Along with the most common signs of poisoning, marsh whitefly causes irritation of the mucous membranes. Fresh leaves, stem, fruit, and especially the rhizome are toxic.

Many people are familiar with garden honeysuckle, but few people know which berries are poisonous in forest honeysuckle. They are bright red in color, collected in a small bunch. Honeysuckle berries resemble red currants. What may cause confusion regarding the edibility of the berries is that some birds peck the fruits of forest honeysuckle, but they are poisonous to humans. Only the blue berries of garden honeysuckle are edible. Forest honeysuckle bushes are often used for decorative purposes.

Euonymus is a shrub up to two meters high. Often planted as ornamental shrub with beautiful red fruits. Birds love the berries, but eating them is dangerous for humans. The fruits look like bright red flesh peeking out from pink capsules with black seeds.

The plant is of medium height (up to 60 cm), with large oblong black fruits, they also come in red or white. The plant is highly irritating with all its parts; one touch can cause severe inflammation, accompanied by the appearance of blisters. A particularly strong reaction of the toxic substance manifests itself on the mucous membrane of the eyes and mouth. Similar to it is the red-fruited crow, which has red fruits.

The plant is widespread in the mountainous and foothill regions of Southern Russia; the fruits are small black berries with red juice inside. Small fragrant white flowers are collected in numerous umbrellas. Intoxication may result in death due to cardiac arrest or pulmonary edema. The accumulation of oxyhemoglobin stains mucous surfaces in Blue colour. However, fresh ripe fruits can be consumed in processed form.

Buckthorn poisonous berries can be found in the forest near bodies of water. The black bone fruits of buckthorn ripen in late summer. The bark and fruits of buckthorn are used as a remedy for constipation and for gastric lavage. Buckthorn fruits can be confused with bird cherry. Consumption fresh causes severe vomiting.

Many people have come across yew used in decorative hedges, but few people know what poisonous yew berries are, especially in the middle, where brown seeds are hidden under the fleshy, almost harmless part. The bark, shoots, and yew wood are also toxic. Coniferous extract can cause human death. The poison has a paralyzing effect, causing respiratory arrest and convulsions.

1. Spotted arum

It is a perennial plant with a fleshy stem and tuberous rhizome. At the end of summer, the leaves of the plant fall off, leaving stems with a large bunch of dense red berries. After ingestion, severe intoxication, if first aid is not provided, can lead to death.

Spotted arum

Thus, many of poisonous plants at correct use and recycling can be beneficial and serve medicine from many diseases. However, in no case should you self-medicate without medical skills, or ingest fresh fruits of the above toxic plants. If this happens, you must immediately provide medical assistance to the victim. And most importantly, to avoid unpleasant consequences, you should not eat unfamiliar wild berries, touch them with your hands, and let children do this.

These are small fleshy or juicy fruits that are collected from bushes and herbs. You need to understand that in botany, fruits are classified in their own way (tomatoes are considered berries, and raspberries and strawberries are considered fruits). To avoid confusion, fruits are distinguished from berries mainly by size. Humanity has been eating berries for almost its entire century: even under the primitive communal system, gathering helped to survive. These fruits are still valued today: for their taste, low calorie content and rich vitamin and mineral composition.

Watermelon

It is a source of essential amino acids, antioxidants, vitamins and minerals. It is low in calories and fat, but contains fiber. These berries have long been used in cosmetology, and now their properties are being actively studied by doctors. When consumed in moderate portions, watermelon helps maintain normal functioning of the cardiovascular and digestive systems It also contributes to the body's antioxidant defenses and helps prevent the development of many chronic diseases.

Barberry

Barberry belongs to the genus of shrubs, less often trees, of the Barberry family. These are deciduous, semi-evergreen (the foliage partially falls off), evergreen shrubs or small trees, with ribbed, erect shoots that branch at an acute angle. The bark is brownish-gray or brownish-gray in color. It also has another name - caramel tree.

Cowberry

Lingonberry is a perennial, low, evergreen, branching subshrub reaching a height of 10 to 20 cm. The leaves are small, petiolate, leathery, shiny. The flowers are white and pink bells, 5 mm long, collected at the top of the branches in sparse clusters. Blooms in May - early June. Lingonberry fruits are small, bright red berries with a characteristic sweet and sour taste. Ripens in August-September. Lingonberry is a wild forest berry. It is found in the tundra, as well as in forest areas, in the temperate climate zone.

Elder

Elderberry is a perennial woody plant from the honeysuckle family. Shrub or small tree reaching 3-10 m in height. The trunk and branches are gray. Leaves are opposite, petiolate, imparipinnate. The flowers are small, fragrant, creamy or yellowish-white. Blooms from May to the first half of June. The elderberry fruit is black-purple, berry-shaped. Ripens in August - September.
In the wild, black elderberry is found between bushes on the edges of forests in middle lane The European part of Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic states and Belarus, Crimea, the Caucasus, and southeast Russia. Elderberry grows in both sunny and shady places. Reproduction is carried out by dividing old bushes, layering and sowing seeds.

Grape

Already in ancient times, grapes and their derivatives were valued not only for taste qualities, but also for their medicinal properties. Modern scientific medicine confirms that berries contain a large amount of antioxidants that protect the body from chronic diseases of the cardiovascular and nervous systems, and also help fight free radicals. Even high content sugar does not spoil the berries, since it also contains substances that improve the absorption of glucose.

Goji berries

Goji Berries ( common wolfberry) or Lycium barbarum belongs to a group of plants with the common collective name “wolfberry”. By the way, not all plants in this group have a toxic effect on humans - some of its species have unique healing properties. Since ancient times, goji berry has been used in Chinese medicine to increase libido in women and men, as well as to lift mood and improve well-being in stressful situations. It is believed that this plant helps fight cancer cells, improves immunity and prolongs life.

Blueberry

Blueberry is a small shrub up to 1 meter high with gray smooth curved branches. Leaves are up to 3 cm long. Flowers are small, five-toothed, white or pinkish. Blueberry fruits are blue with a bluish bloom, juicy edible berries up to 1.2 cm long.
Sometimes blueberries are called drunkards or gonobobels because they supposedly intoxicate and drive away pain in the head. But in fact, the culprit of these phenomena is wild rosemary, which often grows next to blueberries.
Blueberries are harvested for consumption either raw or processed. They make jam and are also used to make wine.

Cherry

A tree or shrub, usually with several trunks 1.5-2.5 m high, rarely up to 3 m and higher.
The leaves are dark green, oval, pubescent below, strongly corrugated, with a pointed end. The flowers are white, white with pink (less often pink), up to 2.5 cm in diameter. Cherry fruits are oval drupes, red when ripe, sweet (sometimes with sourness) in taste, smaller than ordinary cherries (0.8-1.5 cm in diameter), covered with small fluff. Depending on the region, they ripen from the end of June to the end of July, and on the same tree almost simultaneously; Cherries bear fruit abundantly, usually in the third year and up to 15-20 years annually.

Melon

Plant of the Pumpkin family, species of the Cucumber genus, melon crop, false berry.
Melon is a warm and light-loving plant, resistant to soil salinity and drought, and does not tolerate high humidity air. Depending on the variety and place of cultivation, one plant can produce from two to eight fruits weighing from 1.5 to 10 kg. Melon fruits are spherical or cylindrical in shape, green, yellow, brown or white in color, usually with green stripes. The ripening period of melon is from two to six months.

Blackberry

A perennial subshrub of the Rubus genus, belonging to the Rosaceae family. Blackberries are widespread in northern and temperate latitudes ah of the Eurasian continent, in coniferous and mixed forests, in the floodplains of rivers, in forest-steppe zone. There are practically no garden blackberries, so lovers of this berry have to rely on nature’s favor and wait good harvest this wild berry.

Strawberries

Strawberry - perennial herbaceous plant family Rosaceae up to 20 cm high. The rhizome is short, oblique, with numerous additional brownish-brown, thin roots. The stem is erect, leafy, covered with hairs. The leaves are on long petioles, trifoliate, dark green above, bluish-green below, softly pubescent. Rooting shoots develop from the axils of the basal leaves. Blooms from May to July. The flowers are white, located on long stalks. The strawberry fruit is a false fruit, incorrectly called a berry. It is an overgrown fleshy, fragrant, bright red receptacle. Strawberries ripen in July - September.

Irga

Amazing plant, family Rosaceae. It is undemanding to growing conditions, can normally tolerate frosts down to -40 -50 degrees, and during flowering frosts down to -5 -7 degrees. Irga grows well in soils of varying composition and acidity. But there is an indispensable condition - if you want to get a harvest of large, sweet berries with the aroma of freshness, you need to give the shadberry a sunny place. Therefore, serviceberry bushes should be placed at a distance of at least 2.5-3 m, unless you intend to grow a high hedge, for which serviceberry is very suitable.

Kalina

lat. Viburnum
Red berry with a fairly large seed. Viburnum ripens at the end of September after the first frost. Before this, the berry is quite sour with a bitter taste, but under the influence of slight frosts it acquires sweetness. Widely used in folk medicine.

Dogwood

Shrub 5-7 meters high, sometimes a small tree. Dogwood has been cultivated by mankind for a very long time; historians report dogwood seeds found more than 5 thousand years ago during excavations of human settlements located on the territory of modern Switzerland. Nowadays, 4 types of dogwood are cultivated in most of Europe (France, Italy, Eastern European countries, Ukraine, Moldova, Russia), the Caucasus, Central Asia, China, Japan and North America.

Strawberry

Strawberry is a perennial herbaceous plant, 15-35 cm high, belongs to the Rosaceae family.
The stem is erect, the leaves are large, light green in color. Corymbose inflorescences of 5-12 flowers on short, densely pubescent pedicels. The flowers are usually unisexual, five-petaled, white, with a double perianth. Between the beginning of strawberry flowering and the beginning of strawberry ripening, a period of 20 to 26 days passes.

Cranberry

Represents evergreen, a shrub with thin and low shoots. The length of the shoots is on average about 30 cm, wild cranberry berries are red, spherical, 8-12 mm in diameter. Some specially bred varieties have berries up to 2 cm in diameter. Cranberries bloom in June, berry picking begins in September and continues throughout the fall. Plantation berries ripen 1-2 weeks earlier than wild ones. Cranberries can easily be stored until spring.

Red Ribes

Red currant is a small deciduous perennial shrub of the Gooseberry family (Grossulariaceae). Unlike black currants, the bushes are more compressed and elongated upward. Strong and thick annual shoots growing from the base of the bush are used to form it and replace old, dying branches, but over the years their progressive growth fades.

Gooseberry

A perennial, multi-stemmed shrub with a long fruiting period and high yield - up to 20-25 kg per bush. Gooseberry bushes reach up to 1.5 m in height and up to 2 m in diameter. Gooseberry is a plant of temperate latitudes, tolerates light shading, but is quite moisture-loving. Root system gooseberries are located at a depth of up to 40 cm. It is best placed along the fence at a distance of 1-1.5 m bush from bush. Over time, they grow, forming a continuous thorny wall.

Schisandra

Schisandra is a large climbing shrub-liana from the magnolia family. Its length reaches fifteen meters, and entwining trees, lemongrass resembles grapevine. The thickness of the stem is 2 centimeters. The plant takes the form of a bush in northern regions. Schisandra berries are 2-seeded, bright red, juicy, spherical, very sour. The seeds smell like lemon and have a bitter, pungent taste. The bark of the roots and stems also smells like lemon, hence the name Schisandra.

Raspberries

The deciduous subshrub Rubus idaeus, or common raspberry, is distributed throughout the world - from Alaska and the Aleutian Islands to Hawaii. People usually call raspberry fruits berries, which does not correspond to their definition in the botanical classification. From this position, a more accurate name for the raspberry fruit is “multifrupe.”
From the list berry crops Raspberries contain a high concentration of antioxidants, which prevent damage to body cells and stop the aging process. This gives the right to call raspberries “the berry of health and longevity.”

Cloudberry

A small perennial herbaceous plant with a creeping branched rhizome. The stem is simple, erect. 10-15 cm in height, ending in a single white flower. The leaves are wrinkled, heart-shaped, with a lobed edge. The cloudberry fruit is a clustered drupe, reddish at first, and amber-yellow when ripe. Cloudberries bloom in May and June and ripen in July and August. The fruit is acid-spicy, wine-like.

Sea ​​buckthorn

A shrub or small tree reaching a height of three to four meters with branches covered with small thorns and green, slightly elongated leaves.
Sea buckthorn is wind pollinated and blooms in late spring. The fruits are small (up to 8-10 mm), orange-yellow or red-orange, oval in shape. The name for this plant “Sea Buckthorn” is very apt, since its berries are on very short stalks and sit very closely on the branches, as if clinging to them. The berries have a rather pleasant sweet and sour taste, as well as a peculiar, unique aroma that vaguely resembles pineapple. This is why sea buckthorn is sometimes called the northern, or Siberian, pineapple.

Olives

An evergreen subtropical tall tree of the genus Olive (Olea) of the Olive family (Oleaceae).
The height of an adult cultivated olive tree is usually five to six meters, but sometimes reaches 10-11 meters or more. The trunk is covered with gray bark, gnarled, twisted, and usually hollow in old age. The branches are gnarled and long. The leaves are narrow-lanceolate, gray-green in color, do not fall off in the winter and are renewed gradually over two to three years. The fragrant flowers are very small, from 2 to 4 centimeters long, whitish, in one inflorescence there are from 10 to 40 flowers. The fruit is an elongated oval-shaped olive, 0.7 to 4 centimeters long and 1 to 2 centimeters in diameter, with a pointed or blunt nose, fleshy, the olives contain a pit inside.

Rowan

Tree up to 10 m tall, less commonly a shrub from the Rosaceae family. Rowan fruits are spherical, berry-shaped, red, sour, bitter, slightly tart in taste. After the first frost, the fruits lose their astringency and become tasty and somewhat sweet. Blooms in May - early June. The fruits ripen in September, remaining on the tree until late winter.
In nature, mountain ash is found in forests and mountainous areas of the northern and middle parts of the northern hemisphere. Fairly easy to care for, most mountain ash trees look great most of the year.

Turn

Thorn is a shrub or small tree 1.5-3 (large species up to 4-8) meters high with numerous thorny branches. The branches grow horizontally and end in a sharp, thick thorn. Young branches are pubescent.
Sloe leaves have an elliptical or obovate shape. Young leaves are pubescent, with age they become dark green, with a matte tint, and leathery. Sloe fruits are mostly round in shape, small (10-15mm in diameter), black-blue in color with a waxy coating.

Feijoa

Until now, not every resident of our country knows what feijoa looks like. These alone exotic berries mistaken for a small cucumber, while others mistake it for an avocado. The taste of feijoa is also uncertain - either strawberry or pineapple. It seems that it is generally difficult to say anything for sure about this berry. It is believed that feijoa contains a huge amount of deficient iodine, but the idea of ​​​​a high concentration of this element is disputed. Feijoa is called a “capricious” product due to the inability of the fruit to be stored for more than a week, but this is only partly true. The truth about feijoa is helped to establish research that Lately are being carried out more and more often.

Physalis

Common physalis (vesicle, dog cherry, marunka) is a perennial plant from the nightshade family, 50-100 cm high. The underground shoots of physalis are creeping, woody, and branching. Its stems are erect. angular-curved. The fruit of physalis is a spherical, juicy, orange or red berry, enclosed in a fiery orange, swollen, vesicular berry. almost spherical calyx, thanks to which the plant got its name physalis from Greek word“physo”, which means swollen. The plant blooms in May - August. Physalis fruits ripen in June - September. It grows everywhere in light forests, among bushes, on forest edges, and in ravines.

A perennial shrub belonging to the gooseberry family, it reaches up to 1.5 m in height with drooping yellowish-gray shoots that turn brownish by the end of summer. Blackcurrant leaves are alternate, petiolate, three-, five-lobed, bare above, with golden glands along the veins below, with an aromatic specific smell, up to 12 cm wide. Flowers 7-9 mm long, purple or pinkish-gray, five-membered, collected by 5-10 in drooping clusters 3-8 cm long. The fruit of black currant is a multi-seeded black or dark purple fragrant round shiny berry with a diameter of 7-10 mm. It blooms in May - June, the fruits ripen in July - August.

Blueberry

A perennial low-growing shrub from the genus Vaccinium of the Ericaceae family, 15-30 cm high.
Stems are erect, branched, smooth. The blueberry rhizome is long and creeping. The leaves are elliptical, smooth, light green, leathery, 10-30 mm long, covered with sparse hairs and serrate-toothed edges. Blooms in May-June. The flowers are greenish-white with a pink tint, solitary. They are located on short stalks in the axils of the upper leaves. Blueberries are juicy, black, with a bluish-gray bloom, and shiny. The pulp is dark red, juicy, soft, with many seeds. Ripens in July-August. Blueberries bear fruit in the second or third year.

Bird cherry

A large deciduous shrub or tree of the Rosaceae family, up to 10 m in height, with a dense elongated crown, with matte, cracking dark gray bark, on which large rusty-brown or white lentils are clearly visible. The inner layer of bird cherry bark is yellow, with a characteristic almond smell. Young branches are light olive, short-haired, later cherry-red, glabrous; The bark is yellow on the inside, with a sharp, characteristic odor. The leaves are alternate, short-petiolate, oblong-elliptic, narrowed at both ends, serrate-toothed along the edge. White, strong-smelling flowers are collected in multi-flowered drooping racemes. It blooms in May, the fruits ripen in July - August. The bird cherry fruit is a black, glossy, spherical, tart-tasting, highly astringent drupe with one seed. The stone is round-ovate, sinuously notched.

Rose hip

Perennial, wild plant of the Rosaceae family. People call it wild rose. Rosehip is a low bush, 1.5-2.5 m in height, with arc-like hanging branches covered with strong sickle-shaped thorns. Young shoots of rose hips are greenish-red with awl-like spines and bristles. The flowers are pink or white-pink, with five free petals, the corolla is up to 5 cm in diameter. Rose hips bloom in May-June. The fruits are berry-like (up to 20 mm long), red-orange, different shapes, with many hairy achenes, ripen in September-October.

Dense endless forests have been attracting people since time immemorial. Clean air, saturated with the aroma of forest flowers, tall trees and spreading bushes allow you to fully experience unity with nature.

However, it also happens that when going into the forest for a quiet or green hunt, a person wanders into a labyrinth of giant trees and is not able to find his way back. In such cases, you should completely rely on the mercy of Mother Nature, who takes care of people by providing numerous plants that quench thirst and hunger.

Plants that help you survive

IN plant foods contains almost all the substances necessary for full life: vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates. Some plants have leaves and shoots for food, others have flowers and inflorescences, and still others have berries. A certain types have healthy and rich nutrients roots.

The main advantage of herbs is the ability to eat them without pre-processing, as well as their availability and prevalence in almost all corners of the Earth (except perhaps for polar and desert regions). Knowledge of properties forest plants will help a lost traveler maintain his strength and successfully survive in the wild.

Representatives of the plant world suitable for food

Perhaps the most widely available plant with edible shoots and leaves is nettle. Its leaves are extremely rich in vitamins C, B and K and carotene. Young nettle can be consumed raw, but before doing so, you need to thoroughly mash the leaves to remove the stinging hairs.