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J. in the chorus kalinka, kalinka, kalinushka, tree and fruit Viburnum opulus. They generally take the berries; the apples are shaking; Viburnum is broken in bunches. tale The Kalinov bridges are remembered: this is a road paved with brushwood, viburnum, a road through a swamp. Red-hot viburnum, melted, baked in a free spirit under a lid tightly covered with dough. Another species: Lantana, black viburnum, gordovina, gordina, gordina. Oh my viburnum, oh my raspberry, chorus. Viburnum cannot be like raspberries. Kalinina f. tree, viburnum bush. Breaking the viburnum, a wedding custom: on the table for the newlyweds is a ham and a bottle of wine, tucked into a bunch of viburnum with a scarlet ribbon; The newlyweds are raised up and drinking begins, they go to the houses of the bride's parents, relatives, and travelers, and when they return, the friend breaks down the ham and, having plucked the viburnum, distributes the wine. Viburnum, viburnum, related. to viburnum, a tree or fruit made from them, etc. Viburnum shoots are drunk for scrofula. Kalinovka viburnum liqueur, on berries, or tincture, on leaves, shoots. Kalinnyak, Psk. hard Kalinnik, viburnum grove. Kalinnik, viburnum grove, bush; viburnum brushwood, batozhki, for chibuki; viburnum pie; dough that is kneaded on a viburnum; viburnum hunter. Kalinniki mi. eastern distant autumn thunderstorms, glow, lightning, on behalf of St. Kalinik, and July; in the north, early autumn frosts, which is why the saying: God bless the Kalinniki with darkness, i.e. cloudy weather. Kalinka bleak fish, Surrinus alburnus

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viburnum

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Definition of the word viburnum in dictionaries

Great Soviet Encyclopedia The meaning of the word in the dictionary Great Soviet Encyclopedia
(Viburnum), genus for the most part deciduous shrubs or small trees honeysuckle family. Leaves are opposite, entire or lobed. The flowers are white or pink, the marginal ones are often larger, sterile, collected in an umbrella, shield or panicle. Fetus...

Dictionary living Great Russian language, Dal Vladimir The meaning of the word in the dictionary Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language, Dal Vladimir
and. in the refrain kalinka, kalinka, kalinushka, tree and fruit of Viburnum opulus. They generally take the berries; the apples are shaking; Viburnum is broken in bunches. In the story The Kalinov bridges are remembered: this is a road paved with brushwood, viburnum, a road through a swamp. Red-hot viburnum, melted, baked...

Examples of the use of the word viburnum in literature.

Mixed with these smells was the breath of the mowings across the river, the languid aroma viburnum, and sometimes suddenly in the calm, having overcome everything else, the gentle bitterness of overheated aspens was revealed, flying into the meadows from a distant and invisible forest.

All the Umorushki brothers have already learned from their grandfather Viburnum forest lesh wisdom, one of her old Viburnum He felt sorry for her and let her frolic to her heart's content.

He looked back at Kalina, but Kalina was completely covered with spruce branches - and the Vogul turned away.

Kalina he called Prince Asyka, Aycheil, Vogulka Sole, who picked him up, bleeding, on Balbankar, and then suddenly the dead: Ukhvat, Pitirim, Prince Ermolai.

Kalina I remembered my night vision - Sole's walk - and thought that these thoughts were not without reason.

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 under 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 number 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 coating, 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 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 the northern and temperate latitudes of the Eurasian continent, in coniferous and mixed forests, in floodplains, and in the 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 different 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 aim to grow tall hedge, for which irga 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

Perennial, multi-stemmed shrub with a long fruiting period and high yield- up to 20-25 kg from 1 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. The gooseberry root system is located at a depth of up to 40 cm. It is best placed along the fence at a distance of 1-1.5 m from bush to 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 a grapevine. The thickness of the stem is 2 centimeters. The plant takes the form of a bush in the 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 of berry crops, raspberries stand out for their 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. Some of these exotic berries are mistaken for a small cucumber, while others are mistaken 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 family Rosaceae. People call him 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, of various shapes, with many hairy achenes, ripen in September-October.

KALINA

A small tree or shrub of the honeysuckle family with white flowers and red berries.

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KALINA- Yakovlev, Dvina kisser. 1571. A. Yu. 58. Kalina Rodionov, Dvina tselovalnik. 1571. A. Yu. 58. Kalina Stefanov, Belozersk peasant. 1613. A. Yu. 74. In the name of Maxim hegumen, nickname Kalina, in Rostov. XIV century Pam. Vintage. Russian Literature... Biographical Dictionary

KALINA- female in the refrain kalinka, kalinka, kalinushka, tree and fruit of Viburnum opulus. They generally take the berries; the apples are shaking; Viburnum is broken in bunches. In the tale. The Kalinov bridges are remembered: this is a road paved with brushwood, viburnum, a road through a swamp. Red-hot viburnum,... ... Dahl's Explanatory Dictionary

viburnum- (Viburnum opulus L.). A shrub of the honeysuckle family that produces an edible fruit, the drupe, ovoid, red, slightly smaller in size than a mountain ash, colloquially called a berry, which has a peculiar sweetish-sourish... ... Culinary dictionary

Kalina- 1) y, husband. Razg. to (see Kallinik). Report: Kalinich, Kalinichna.2) s, female. Razg. to (see Callinicia). Dictionary of personal names. Viburnum “Beautifully Victorious” (Greek). April 17 (4) and May 22 (9) – martyr Kallinikos. June 6 (May 24) – martyr... Dictionary of personal names

KALINA- a genus of small trees or shrubs of the honeysuckle family. OK. 200 species, in Eurasia, Northern. Africa and America; There are several types in Russia. Many species are cultivated as ornamental, for example, buldenezh garden form common viburnum. Fruits... ... Big Encyclopedic Dictionary

KALINA- (Viburnum), a genus of shrubs or small trees of the family. honeysuckle Up to 200 species, in temperate and subtropical regions. belts, ch. arr. in Eurasia and North. America. In the USSR there are about 10 wild species, about. 40 (most come from China and Japan) are found in... ... Biological encyclopedic dictionary

viburnum- buldenezh, kalinushka, kalinka Dictionary of Russian synonyms. viburnum noun, number of synonyms: 9 buldenezh (1) ... Synonym dictionary

Kalina- (Viburnum L.) genus of shrubs from the family. Honeysuckle, Caprifoliceae. Leaves are opposite, simple, entire, serrated or lobed; the flowers are collected in whorled inflorescences, with a regular wheel-shaped corolla, 5 stamens and a three-locular ovary, two... ... Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron

KALINA- Viburnum, a genus of small trees or shrubs (honeysuckle family). About 200 species, in Eurasia, North Africa and America. Many are decorative, for example, buldenezh is a garden form of the common viburnum. The fruits of this species are edible. Extract and decoction... ... Modern encyclopedia

KALINA- KALINA, viburnum, many. no, female A shrub from the honeysuckle family, with red bitter berries. || The berries of this shrub. Ushakov's explanatory dictionary. D.N. Ushakov. 1935 1940 … Ushakov's Explanatory Dictionary

KALINA- KALINA, s, female. Shrub family honeysuckle with white flowers and red bitter berries, as well as its berries. | decrease Kalinka, and, female | adj. viburnum, oh, oh. Ozhegov's explanatory dictionary. S.I. Ozhegov, N.Yu. Shvedova. 1949 1992 … Ozhegov's Explanatory Dictionary

There are so many berries in our forests! Red, blue, black, yellow, all kinds. The red berry of any plant is always appetizing to look at. Bright, beautiful, with a glossy side, it hangs on a branch between green leaves. The hand reaches out to pick it and put it in the mouth. But be careful! Not all red berries are safe. There are ruthless poisoners among them, and if you eat them, you can pay with your life. Nature gave us wonderful plants. These are raspberries, strawberries, rose hips, cranberries, viburnum, lemongrass, lingonberries and many others. Their red berries are known to everyone and, perhaps, everyone knows about their benefits. They are used to make jams and compotes, bake pies and prepare tinctures, eat them raw and are successfully used in medicine. But in forest glades you can find no less beautiful red berries, which should be avoided. The people dubbed them “wolves,” although each of them has its own name.

Honeysuckle

This one is most often called It is found not only in forests almost throughout Russia, it is also planted as a hedge. Honeysuckle has some pretty nice creamy, white or bee-pleasing flowers. Among the many varieties of this plant there are also edible ones.

Their fruits are slightly elongated, dark blue or almost purple. Either the forest or the common one in question has a red berry. It is small in size, spherical, very juicy, bright, shiny, and perfectly decorates the bush. Often two berries grow together in pairs. Children mistake them for red currants. The berries of real honeysuckle taste bitter, so you can’t eat a lot of them, but it’s better not to try them. No deaths have been reported after eating small amounts of inedible honeysuckle. But those who have tasted these berries may experience poisoning with fever, stomach pain, nausea, vomiting and bowel dysfunction.

Lily of the valley

This delicate fragrant flower, which delights us in the spring, is unusually poisonous. The fruit of the lily of the valley is a round red berry located on a stem on thin, slightly curved stalks. Lily of the valley grows almost everywhere - in deciduous, coniferous and mixed forests, in oak forests, in gardens and flower beds. He especially likes edges and clearings with fairly moist soil.

The berries stay on the plant for a long time. They pose a particular danger to animals. People are rarely poisoned by them. The poison contained in all parts of the flower is called convallatoxin. Once in the body, it can cause cardiac arrest. Those who eat a small amount of berries show all the signs of food poisoning. It is noteworthy that even the water in which lilies of the valley stand becomes poisonous. But in strictly fixed doses the plant is used in official medicine for the treatment of heart diseases. Traditional medicine uses lily of the valley much more widely, for example, for rheumatism, headaches, and eye diseases.

Deadly wolfberry

Wolf's bast, plohovets, wolfberry - all these are the same shrub with red berries. You can see it in the forests of Russia right up to the Arctic zone. It blooms earlier than other trees and shrubs, decorating the edges already in March. Its berries are bright, juicy, very beautiful, approximately the size of a cherry pit.

They contain poisonous juice, which, if it comes into contact with the skin and mucous membranes, causes itching, redness, and inflammation. Symptoms of poisoning are similar to those that occur with gastroenteritis. All parts of the wolfberry are poisonous. They contain a large number of substances dangerous to humans - diterpenoids, coumarins, daphnin, miserein, coccognin and others. How to plant wolfberry ornamental plant and in the gardens. Avicenna also used it in his recipes. Traditional healers use this plant externally, in the form of decoctions and tinctures, for rheumatism, gout, sore throat, dermatosis, toothache and many other diseases, but it is officially used in medicinal purposes forbidden.

Swamp Calliper

This very beautiful graceful plant is widely known as calla lily. It is happily grown in flower beds and used in bouquets. In nature, whitefly can be found where there is sufficient humidity. It grows in the European part of Russia, Siberia, and the Far East. All its parts are poisonous. Calla lilies' flowers are small and inconspicuous, gathered into cobs. They are decorated with a white blanket, which many take for a large petal.

The fruit of the plant is a red berry, somewhat reminiscent large mulberry on a leg. Calla lily juice causes irritation and inflammation of the skin, and if it gets into the stomach, nausea, vomiting, convulsions, and irregular heart rhythms appear. Pets are often poisoned by the leaves and fruits of calla lilies. They begin to drool profusely, tremble, have a bloated abdomen, and their pulse becomes very weak but rapid. Death without taking immediate measures occurs within an hour. For medicinal purposes, they mainly use the rhizome of calla lilies, even after special processing added to some dishes.

Voronets

This herbaceous plant with red berries can be found in coniferous and mixed forest belts, on swamp hummocks, on clay and rocky slopes. It is sometimes used in gardens as decorative decoration flower beds, mainly because of the beautiful carved leaves. Voronets has many other names, including bedbug (due to unpleasant odor), stinky, Christophorus' grass, again wolfberry. Voronets bloom in May-June. In place of small white flowers, which stay on the stem for only a couple of days, berries appear.

Depending on the species, they can be not only red, but also white and black. There are up to two dozen of them on the stalk. They are also small, round, shiny, resemble a small bunch of grapes and are very attractive to look at. All parts of the black crow are poisonous. If it enters the stomach, people experience nausea and vomiting, severe pain in the abdominal area, cramps, clouding of consciousness.

Arum

In appearance, this plant resembles a calla lily, only its cover is not white, but dirty green-purple, similar to decaying meat. The smell is about the same. The plant needs this to attract carrion and dung flies - its only pollinators. But the arum fruit is quite nice.

Its bright, shiny red berries look unusually attractive on an erect stem. The photo shows that they form something like a cob and look like beads stuck to one another. They are only poisonous while fresh. Dried berries are used in folk medicine to treat bronchitis, hemorrhoids and some other diseases. Arum grows almost throughout Europe and Asia. It can be seen on river banks, meadows, pastures, in bush thickets and on rocky mountain slopes.

Nightshade bittersweet

There are about 1000 species. The poisonous one is the one whose berries are red. Black berries are quite edible; they are even used to make jams, compotes, and bake pies. Nightshade is found in many regions of Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, and Belarus. Grows like a weed. Some gardeners plant it to decorate fences and hedges.

Nightshade fruits are bright red, slightly elongated, reminiscent of greatly reduced bunches of cherry tomatoes. Alkaloids, steroids, carotenoids, and triterpenoids were found in their pulp and seeds. The taste of nightshade berries is sweet at first, but afterwards there is a bitterness in the mouth. In case of poisoning, coordination of movement is impaired, the heart rate increases, and abdominal pain appears.

Red elderberry

Walking in the second half of summer along the edge of a forest or in a park, you can see spreading bushes decorated with lush berry clusters. This is elderberry. Just don’t confuse it with the black edible one.

This type of elderberry does not mean that it is not yet ripe. It's just a completely different species of the same plant family. The red elderberry is very beautiful, so it is readily cultivated to decorate alleys, parks and squares. Its berries are a bit like rowan berries, but the leaves and the plant itself are completely different. Birds eat its red berries with pleasure, but they are poisonous to humans due to the presence of amygdalin in them, which turns into hydrocyanic acid in the stomach. In small doses, red elderberry ethnoscience suggests using it as a medicine. Important: it has already been proven that red elderberry does not save you from cancer.

Euonymus

Many people will probably be interested in what the red berry is called. unusual looking- bright, juicy, with black dotted eyes. This is a verrucous euonymus. Its fruits have a rather pleasant taste, so forest birds readily peck them.

People seeing this may think the berries are safe. But euonymus is poisonous, and all parts of it are dangerous beautiful plant. Symptoms of poisoning by attractive berries are nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, convulsions, general weakness, and cardiac dysfunction. Euonymus grows in broad-leaved groves and forests; it loves oak forests and places with lime-rich soils. In populated areas it can be seen in the form of a spectacular hedge.

What to do in case of poisoning

Some authors give recommendations on how to recognize whether berries are poisonous or not. One of the main signs of safety is the consumption of berries by birds and animals. However, focusing on this, you can pay with your life. So, birds eat the berries of euonymus, elderberry, nightshade, honeysuckle and others without the slightest harm. To avoid trouble, you need to be guided by another rule - if you don’t know what the red berry is called and what it is, it’s better not to touch it. According to statistics, berry poisoning is more common among children. Adults should explain to them what berries grow in their area. If poisoning does occur, before the ambulance arrives, you need to rinse the victim’s stomach, give adsorbents to drink and ensure rest.