When picking berries, do not confuse edible and healthy ones with poisonous ones! There are few poisonous berries. They should be remembered so as not to harm either yourself or your comrades.
Small shrub, slightly branched, with slightly wrinkled yellowish-gray bark and straight stems from 0.5 to 1.5 m in height. Blooms in April-May before the leaves open. The flowers are pinkish lilac or dark pink. In shape, they are very similar to lilac flowers - the same four petals, with a delicate aroma reminiscent of the smell of hyacinth. But it is undesirable to inhale this smell for a long time, as it can cause a headache. In autumn, the plant ripens red-orange oblong berries, very tempting. But they are not only there, it is not recommended to touch them - the plant is poisonous!
There is a wolf's bast in the European part the former USSR, in the Caucasus, in Siberia, mainly in mixed forests. It never forms thickets, grows in single bushes at a considerable distance from each other. The entire wolf bast plant is poisonous, especially the fruits. Unknowingly, they sometimes poison children, and they pose a danger to adults. Blisters and ulcers may appear on contact with wet bark. At the same time, general poisoning of the body occurs. The very strong smell of wolf bast sometimes causes a runny nose, sneezing and coughing. For medicinal purposes, the bark is harvested in the spring, during the flowering of the plant, the fruits - in August, the roots - in the spring or autumn.
A semi-shrub, distributed almost throughout Europe (with the exception of the Far North), in northern Africa, western Asia and North America, in our European Russia to Finland, in the Crimea, in the Caucasus and in Siberia. Found in wet shady places, along the banks of rivers and streams, freely and between bushes. It has a creeping, highly branched, thick, lumpy, woody rhizome, seated in places with adventitious roots. Stem (one or more) recumbent, climbing or curly, 1-3 m long, woody, twisting, indistinctly knotty, sympodial-branched, covered with gray or light brown bark on the outside, and usually hollow inside due to drying of the core. Young branches are herbaceous, curving, thin, green, glabrous or slightly hairy. Leaves are alternate, protruding, long-petiolate, oblong-ovate; pointed, slightly cordate or wedge-shaped at the base, often with 1 or 2 lateral, almost opposite, oblong ears, as a result of which they are spear-shaped, whole-edged, wavy, glabrous or short-haired, dark green, sometimes with a violet tint. Flowers of medium size, regular, bisexual, podpistillate, on rather long pedicels, drooping, collected on almost opposite-leaved, fork-like branched peduncles with almost drooping, 4-8-colored, geniculate, spread-out curls. Fresh leaves give off an unpleasant odor.
The fruit is an ovoid, bright red, multi-seeded, juicy, bitter berry, supported by the remaining cup. Seeds with fleshy protein, kidney-shaped, flat, whitish. The embryo is curved. Blooms from May to late August. All green parts of the plant are poisonous, while ripe fruits are almost harmless. Plant venomously, contains a poison - solanine. The berries are attractive, but not edible, and even slightly poisonous. It is widely used in folk medicine.
It is an annual herb with a branched stem. Leaves are ovoid, pointed, slightly notched. The flowers are small, white, with five stamens, gathered in umbrella-shaped curls. Fruits are black spherical berries. Height 10-90 cm. The plant blooms from July to September. The fruits ripen in August-September. Fruits - berries (diameter 3-7 mm), when ripe are black, juicy, with a sweet red-violet pulp, with a lot of small seeds. Black nightshade berry juice contains dyes, berry stains are difficult to remove. V wildlife the plant reproduces by self-seeding.
Black nightshade is a Eurasian plant with an extensive range, introduced to North America. In our country, it is found almost throughout the European part of Russia (excluding the most northern regions) and in the south of Siberia. It grows in weedy places and wastelands in settlements, in vegetable gardens, melons, in orchards, vineyards, on the sides of fields and roads, in ravines, along the banks of reservoirs, in valley thickets of bushes.
Black nightshade berries have long been eaten. They are rarely eaten fresh because of their unpleasant odor. Most often they are used as a filling for pies, having previously scalded with boiling water, especially in the Urals and Siberia. In Siberia, they are used to make jam and marmalade. They contain sugars and ascorbic acid (vitamin C), so their food use is quite justified. However, only completely ripe berries can be eaten, because unripe fruits contain some poisonous compounds that are completely destroyed during the ripening of the berries. In the Caucasus, boiled leaves of this plant are also eaten. Black nightshade berries used to be used in the handicraft industry as a dye. There are observations that this plant scares off the Colorado potato beetle.
Belladonna is one of the most poisonous herbs. "Crazy cherry", "sleepy dope" - this is what the people call it. It is a perennial herb of the Solanaceae family with an erect thick green or violet-colored stem, forked-branched at the top, reaching 1.5-2 m in height. The leaves are large, ovate, whole-edged and pointed. The lower leaves are single, alternate, the upper leaves are arranged in pairs (of which one is larger than the other), covered with the smallest glands.
The flowers are solitary, rather large, tubular-bell-shaped, brown-violet or dark purple (occasionally the corolla is yellow), nondescript in appearance. The plant blooms in June-August, bears fruit in July-September. The fruit is a shiny black and blue berry, flattened globular, juicy, sweet and sour, the size of a cherry. The rhizome is thick, multi-headed. In autumn, it produces a poisonous berry that is black with a purple tinge, which ripens on a dirty purple (or green) stem. It blooms with bell-shaped brown-violet flowers. Belladonna is widespread in the Crimea, the Caucasus, and the Carpathians. Occurs in clearings, forest edges, shady glades. It is also found in the middle zone of Russia.
May lily of the valley is a perennial herb of the lily family with a creeping branched rhizome and thin roots at the nodes. The underground rhizome is not thicker than a goose feather; near the top, it bears several pale small lower leaves, half-hidden in the ground.
From the tops and lateral branches of the rhizome there are shoots, consisting of 3-6 sheath leaves. The leaves of the lily of the valley are basal, long-petiolate with an oblong-elliptical pointed leaf blade, thin, whole-edged, bright green, bluish on the upper side, and shiny on the lower side.
The flower arrow is smooth, triangular in the upper part, 15-20 cm high. The perianth is snow-white with six slightly bent teeth. Inside the flower, the pistil is surrounded by six stamens on short filaments attached at the base of the perianth.
The plant has a strong but pleasant aroma, and it blooms from late May to June. The fruit is a juicy three-nested spherical orange-red berry that ripens in August-September. The plant is poisonous. Lily of the valley is widespread in the temperate zone of the northern hemisphere - in the Crimea, the Caucasus, in the eastern part of Siberia, in the Far East and in the European part of Russia.
Grows in light deciduous and coniferous forests, in shrubs. Forest-edging plant. The bright red berries that appear in the fall - the fruits of the lily of the valley - are poisonous.
It is a perennial herb 15-45 cm high with a creeping rhizome. The range of the raven's eye is shady forests and moist soils. It is found in beech, mixed and coniferous forests among shrubs and at the foot of the slopes.
This plant has a very distinctive look and is immediately recognizable. Four wide oval leaf extending from one point of the stem are arranged in a horizontal plane like a cross. The leaves have no petioles, they are sessile. Leaves are attached to the top of the stem, cylindrical, straight, rather high. Above the leaves, a twig-pedicel rises up, which ends in a flower. This twig is much shorter and thinner than the stem. The raven eye always forms only one flower. This happens in only a few plants. Much more often we meet with such a case when there are several or many flowers and they are collected in inflorescences.
The raven eye blooms in late spring. But its flowering usually passes unnoticed. The flowers of the plant, although not too small, do not stand out in any way, since they have a nondescript greenish color. They don't attract much attention to themselves.
The crow's eye flower is such that it is difficult to say how long ago it blossomed. Its appearance at the beginning of flowering is almost the same as at the end. Tepals and stamens do not fall off after flowering, remain on the plant. These parts of the flower gradually dry out over time, and the pistil turns into fruit - small black - berry... A dark berry is noticeable much better than a flower, it always attracts attention. However, many stems bear only one leaves, arranged in a cross. Flowering is not always observed.
Aerial shoots of crow's eye grow back in spring from the rhizome that has overwintered in the soil. It is long, creeping, light brown, two or three matches thick. Such rhizomes can quickly expand to the sides. The end of the rhizome is sharp, it easily penetrates into loose forest soil. On the rhizome, in some places peculiar, modified underground leaves are visible - dry brown scales as long as a fingernail. Filamentous roots are also visible, which supply the plant with water.
Do not be surprised if you come across raven-eye plants in the forest, which have not four leaves, but five or even six. Such deviations sometimes occur. But more often than not, four leaves still develop. It is because of this that the raven eye is named four-leafed.
Each year, the shoot of the raven's eye increases by one segment, by the number of which the age of the plant can be determined. During fruiting, the raven eye has an unusual appearance- it resembles a plate on a leg. The black berry of this plant is very similar to the raven's eye, hence the similar name. All parts of the plant, especially the berries, are poisonous; it contains saponins, paridine and paristipine. Distributed in the middle regions of the European part of Russia, Siberia, Ukraine, Belarus, the Caucasus. Shade-loving plant, grows in shady coniferous, deciduous and mixed forests on moist soil.
The fruit is a bluish-black berry. Different parts of the plant have different effects: rhizomes - emetic, berries act on the heart, leaves - on nervous system Signs of poisoning: nausea, vomiting, colicky pains, diarrhea, convulsions, cardiac abnormalities, respiratory arrest, paralysis.
Deciduous shrub up to 1.5 m tall, with a rounded crown and long, thin shoots. Leaves are simple, ovate or almost round, entire, sometimes notched-lobed, up to 6 cm long, green above and gray below. Small pink flowers are collected in dense racemose inflorescences, located throughout the shoot and making the bush, despite the small size of the flowers, very elegant.
It blooms profusely and for a long time, and on the shoots you can see not only blossoming flowers, but also ripe fruits - berry-shaped, spherical, up to 1 cm in diameter, white, very elegant, juicy, they keep on the shoots for a long time, decorating the plants even after the leaves have fallen off.
Distributed in the forest zone of North America. It was brought to Russia in the 19th century and began to be widely grown as a beautiful shrub that is unpretentious and undemanding to the conditions of culture. They can grow on stony, calcareous soils, in partial shade. Its white round berries are very tempting, but inedible.
Shrub from the family of euonymus (Celasfraceae) with a well-developed root system. Stems up to 2 m high.Sometimes this shrub for some reason becomes single-stemmed and takes the form of a tree up to 3 m high.The bark of young aerial shoots is green, later brownish, densely planted with black-brown or reddish cork warts, hence the name of the plant.
The bark of the trunks is almost black, wrinkled, with whitish cracks. Leaves are opposite, oblong-ovate, 1.5 to 6 cm long and 0.7-3 cm wide, pointed at the apex, thin, leathery, dark green above, light green below, sometimes pubescent along the veins on the underside of the plate , finely serrate along the edge, with short petioles.
Flowers with unpleasant odor, about 1 cm in diameter, collected in 3-9 inflorescences, half-umbels, located in the axils of the leaves. Calyx of 4 sepals. Corolla of 4 almost rounded petals, greenish-brown or brownish in color with purple or dark red spots and dots. 4 stamens with almost sessile whitish anthers. Pistil with an upper ovary.
Fetus- 4-nested pink or reddish pear-shaped box, about 6 mm long and 8-12 mm in diameter, in cross section almost square, with rounded edges. When ripe, it cracks and hangs outward on thin threads, 1-2 seeds from each nest. The seeds are black, shiny, ovoid, 6-7 mm long, half surrounded by a fleshy juicy brick-red seedbed, the so-called roof. The result is an extremely entertaining formation, similar to an earring.
Ripe fruits give the euonymus a vivid picturesqueness. The beauty of the plant during this period of its life is complemented by the leaves, which acquire a yellow-pink color in autumn. Euonymus blooms in May - June, fruits ripen in August - September. Blooms in May-June. Bears fruit in August-September. These are orange berries with a black dot, hanging from a long herbaceous thread. They - like wolf berries, like elderberries and buckthorns - are inedible, poisonous!
Warty euonymus is distributed in the forest and forest-steppe zone throughout Europe, as well as in the Caucasus and Asia Minor. In European Russia it reaches Pskov and Kostroma in the north, and Izhevsk in the east.
It has good shade tolerance, which allows it to grow in the undergrowth of various types of deciduous, mixed and pine forests, where the stand is formed by oak, linden, hornbeam, maple, ash and other species that give deep shade. On a hectare of forest area, there can be from several dozen euonymus bushes to 8 thousand. Frequent in forest ravines and bushes, including river valleys.
For medicinal purposes, the fruits of euonymus are used as an emetic and laxative. Cardiac glycosides have recently been isolated from seeds.
Perennial herb of the Umbelliferae family, with the smell of parsley (celery). Rhizome in early spring completely dense and almost round, oblong in autumn, hollow inside and divided by transverse partitions into separate chambers. The stem is hollow inside, finely grooved, up to 130 cm in height, branched from above. The leaves are on long petioles, twofold, and below threefold. Umbrellas with 10-20 smooth beams; there is no wrapper or it consists of 1 - 2 leaves; wrappers - from 8 to 12 linear leaves.
The flowers are usually white, less often yellow or greenish-yellow, small, regular, five-toothed calyx, 5 petals. Blossoms in July-August; fruits ripen in September. Distributed in Eurasia. The poisonous milestone grows on sedge-mossy and grassy bogs of the transitional type, along ditches, river banks, bushes, along swamp alders, often right in the water. The plant is highly poisonous, especially the rhizome!
On the banks of rivers and lakes, in swamps and marshy meadows near the forest and in the bays of drying oxbows, the marsh calla attracts attention - a close relative of cultural kaallas, which we give to relatives and friends on special days. Leaves of wild calla are dark green, lacquered, on long petioles, wide, pointed and with noticeable veins.
The flowers are collected on the cob and wrapped in a blanket that is pure white on the inside and pale green on the outside.
Calla fruits - very beautiful bright red berries - are attached to the main trunk. Each berry has 6-8 ovoid achenes. When ripe, the fruit is released from the white blanket, produces mucus, and then submerges in water. Fresh fruits, leaves and other parts of the plant are very poisonous, especially the rhizome.
Grows: from temperate to tropical regions of the entire northern hemisphere. It is found in many regions of Russia, from the European part to Siberia and the Far East. A swamp plant that lives on the swampy shores of water bodies and rivers, in swampy and humid places.
Leaves are solitary, on long petioles, alternate, oval-cordate, with pointed ends and a smooth margin. The leaf blade is thick, shiny, 6-14 cm long, 5-11 cm wide, with pinnate-arcuate venation, ovate-heart-shaped, retracted-pointed at the apex; dense green above and paler on the underside. Numerous lateral arcuate veins depart from the median at different levels and, bending forward, merge into several veins reaching the apex of the leaf blade. The petiole, up to 1 cm thick, departs above the base of the membranous sheath, the upper part of which protrudes freely, forming a large uvula. On dried material, the petiole often turns yellow or orange.
Flowers unisexual small, up to 1 cm, without perianth, collected in dense inflorescences-cobs on a thick vertical branch, surrounded by a blanket, green outside and white inside. The cover turns green after pollination of the flowers and serves for additional photosynthesis. The height of the inflorescence is equal to the length of the leaf.
Fruit- small (6-8 mm in diameter) bright red juicy berries, ripen a month after flowering, form a cylindrical ear. In the European part of Russia, it bears fruit at the end of August. Flowering time- from May to July.
Shrub or small tree 3-7 m tall, the trunk and branches are gray, with lenticels along the bark. The core of the branches is white, soft. Leaves are dark green, opposite, pinnate, consist of 5-7 pairs of oblong-ovate leaves and apical unpaired. The flowers are small, fragrant, yellowish-white, collected in large multiflorous corymbose panicles. The fruit is a spherical purple-black berry drupe. Blooms in June - July.
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Natural thickets of black elderberry are concentrated in Ukraine, in the Crimea and the Caucasus in the undergrowth of deciduous forests, in shrub thickets. In the Middle Volga region, black elderberry is sometimes bred in parks and gardens. It runs wild easily, therefore, in its wild form, it can sometimes be found in the deciduous forests of the region. Elderberry leaves, flowers and unripe fruits are poisonous (mature ones are eaten fresh and processed). The toxicity is due to the cyanogenic glycosides sambunigrin and d-amygdalin.
With elderberry poisoning, dizziness, headache, weakness, sore throat, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting occur. Characteristic is the staining of the mucous membranes in blue as a result of the accumulation of oxyhemoglobin in the venous blood. Tachycardia is replaced in the later stages by bradycardia. Shortness of breath with a delay in exhalation is observed, convulsions are possible. Death occurs from respiratory arrest on the background of acute heart failure.
A perennial herb with a thick rhizome. Stems are herbaceous, annual, smooth or slightly pubescent in the upper part, up to 70 cm high. The leaves are three times trifoliate, the leaves are oval, narrowed at the base. The flowers are small, white, whitish, collected in an oval short raceme. The fruits are red. Blooms in May-June. All parts of the plant are poisonous.
It is found in the European part of Russia (Karelo-Murmansk, Dvinsko-Pechora, Ladozhsko-Ilmensky, Volzhsko-Kamsky, Zavolzhsky regions), in Eastern and Western Siberia, in the Far East (Okhotsk, Kamchatka regions, Primorye, Priamurye, Sakhalin, Kuriles). Grows in coniferous, mixed and birch forests, on forest edges, placers, in bushes, on river banks, singly or in several groups. The plant is poisonous. For medicinal purposes, rhizomes, grass (stems, leaves, flowers) are used. It is found in coniferous and mixed forests and along their edges.
In total, 3 species of the Voronets genus grow in Russia, all of them are forest rhizome perennials, similar to each other. Red-fruited raven(A. erythrocarpa Fisch.) differs in color of fruits (red, less often white), grows in the forest zone of the European (northern half of the zone) and Asian parts of the country, including Sakhalin Island; pointed raven(A. acuminata Wall ex royle) with black fruits on thickened legs grows in the forests of the Far East. In the European part of Russia, in the forest zone, it is almost ubiquitous. raven spike ( Actaea spicata L.)
Strongly poisonous plant! A biennial plant with a fusiform root. Stem up to 2 m in height, strongly branched in the upper part, with a bluish bloom, often with red spots at the base. Leaves are double or quadruple pinnately dissected. The wraps of 10-20-rayed umbrellas consist of 5 leaflets and are folded back. Flowers with an unexpressed calyx and 5 white petals.
Fruits are round-ovate, with wavy longitudinal ribs. The plant has a specific "mouse" smell. It grows in wastelands, near dwellings, along roads, less often in fields and among shrubs in the European part of Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia and Western Siberia. In folk medicine, hemlock is used as a sedative, anticonvulsant and analgesic agent for painful conditions accompanied by convulsions or spasms of internal organs - chorea, epilepsy, whooping cough, migraine. Hemlock spotted is an excellent pain reliever for cancer.
Edible berries are eaten by many birds and animals, therefore, if there are pecked berries, accumulations of droppings on branches and trunks, and on the ground under a tree or bush there are scraps of peel, many seeds, etc., and maybe there will be a squirrel nearby or hedgehog, hiding berries, eaten by land animals, this means that the berries are most likely not poisonous. But it should be noted that this rule cannot be absolutely trusted, since some animals eat berries that are dangerous to humans. Among the poisonous berries, the black spherical, cherry-like, belladonna berries (belladonna) should be distinguished. Particularly poisonous are the small ovoid-spherical, laterally flattened fruits of the hemlock speckled (omega spotted), as well as the red, juicy, pea-sized fruits of the wolf bast (wolfberry, lavrusha), which have a burning juice, a burning mouth, and a lethal dose 3-5 berries.
The raven eye is a completely poisonous plant, especially the bluish black shiny berries that cause nausea, vomiting, pain, cramps, indigestion, and paralysis. Bright red, shiny berries of an elongated shape, sweet to the taste of bittersweet nightshade cause rashes and skin inflammation. The berries of arum, acucuba, bryony, dope and holly, euonymus, mistletoe, gorse, yew, castor oil plant, wild grapes and privet are also poisonous.
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There are so many berries in our forests! Red, blue, black, yellow, very different. The red berry of any plant is always appetizing to look at. Bright, beautiful, with a glossy side, it hangs on a twig between green leaves. The hand just reaches out to rip it off and put it in your mouth. But be careful! Not all red berries are safe. Among them there are ruthless poisoners, eating which, 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, they are eaten raw and successfully used in medicine. But in the forest glades, you can find no less beautiful red berries that need to be avoided. The people christened them "wolf", although each of them has its own name.
This one is most often referred to.It is found not only in forests almost throughout Russia, it is also planted as a hedge. Honeysuckle has some pretty creamy, white, or bee-like favorites. Among the many varieties of this plant, there are also edible ones.
Their fruits are slightly elongated, dark blue or almost purple. In either the forest or the common one in question, the fruit is a red berry. It is small in size, spherical, very juicy, bright, shiny, 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 won't eat a lot of them, but it's better not to taste them. No deaths have been reported after consuming small amounts of inedible honeysuckle. But those who have tasted these berries may experience poisoning with fever, stomach pains, nausea, vomiting and stool disorders.
This delicate fragrant flower, which delights us in spring, is unusually poisonous. The fruit of the lily of the valley is a round red berry, located on a stalk 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 the edges and glades with a fairly moist soil.
The berries stay on the plant for a long time. They are especially dangerous for animals. People are rarely poisoned by them. The poison contained in all parts of the flower is called konvallatoxin. Once in the body, it can cause cardiac arrest. Those who have eaten a small amount of berries have all the signs of food poisoning. It is noteworthy that even the water in which the lilies of the valley stand becomes poisonous. But in strictly fixed doses, the plant is used in official medicine to treat heart disease. Traditional medicine uses lily of the valley much more widely, for example, for rheumatism, headaches, eye diseases.
Wolf's bast, bad boy, wolfberry - all this is one and the same shrub with red berries. You can see it in the forests of Russia up to the Arctic zone. It blooms earlier than other trees and shrubs, decorating the forest edges in the month of March. Its berries are bright, juicy, very beautiful, about the size of a cherry pit.
They contain poisonous juice, when it gets on the skin and mucous membranes, itching, redness, inflammation are observed. Symptoms of poisoning are similar to those of gastroenteritis. All parts of the wolfberry are poisonous. They contain a large amount of substances dangerous to humans - diterpenoids, coumarins, daphnin, mizerein, coccognin and others. Daphne is planted as an ornamental plant and in gardens. Avicenna used it in his recipes. Folk 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 forbidden to use it for medicinal purposes.
This very beautiful graceful plant is commonly known as calla. It is happily grown in flower beds, used in bouquets. In nature, calla can be found where there is sufficient moisture. It grows in the European part of Russia, Siberia, and the Far East. All parts of it are poisonous. Calla's flowers are small and inconspicuous, collected on the cob. They are decorated with a white veil, taken by many for a large petal.
The fruit of the plant is a red berry, somewhat reminiscent of a large mulberry on a leg. Calla juice causes irritation and inflammation of the skin, and when it enters the stomach, nausea, vomiting, convulsions, and irregular heart rhythms appear. Often pets are poisoned with the leaves and fruits of calla lilies. They begin to salivate profusely, tremble, abdominal distention, pulse becomes very weak, but frequent. Death without urgent action occurs within an hour. For medicinal purposes, calla rhizomes are mainly used; even after special processing, they are added to some dishes.
This herb with red berries can be found in coniferous and mixed forest belts, on bog bumps, on clay and rocky slopes. It is sometimes used in gardens as a decorative flower bed, mainly because of its beautiful carved leaves. Voronets has many other names, among which are bugs (because of an unpleasant smell), stinker, Khristoforova's grass, again, wolf berries. The raven blooms in May-June. In place of small white flowers that 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, reminiscent of a small cluster of grapes and very attractive in appearance. All parts of the Voronets are poisonous. If it enters the stomach, people develop nausea with vomiting, severe pain in the abdomen, cramps, and clouding of consciousness.
The outward appearance of the flower, this plant resembles a calla, 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 flies and dung flies - its only pollinators. But the fruit of the arum is quite pretty.
On an erect leg, its bright, shiny red berries look unusually attractive. The photo shows that they form something like a cob and look like beads stuck to one another. They are poisonous only when 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 bushes and on rocky mountain slopes.
In about 1000 species. Poisonous one with red berries. Black berries are quite edible, they are even used for making jams, compotes, and baking pies. The nightshade is found in many regions of Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus. It grows like a weed. Some gardeners plant it to decorate fences and hedges.
The fruits of the nightshade are bright red, slightly elongated, resembling greatly reduced clusters of cherry tomatoes. Alkaloids, steroids, carotonoids, triterpenoids are found in their pulp and bones. The taste of nightshade berries is sweet at first, but then bitterness is felt in the mouth. In case of poisoning, the coordination of movement is disturbed, the heart rate increases, and abdominal pains appear.
Walking in the second half of summer along the edge of the forest or in the park, you can see a spreading shrub decorated with lush berry clusters. This is an elderberry. Just don't confuse it with edible black.
This kind of elderberry does not mean at all that it has not yet ripened. 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 brushes, but the leaves and the plant itself are completely different. Birds eat its red berries with pleasure, but for humans they are poisonous due to the presence of amygdalin in them, as it turns into hydrocyanic acid in his stomach. In small doses, traditional medicine suggests using the berries of a red elderberry as a medicine. Important: it has already been proven that red elderberry does not save you from cancer.
Probably, many will be interested in the name of the red berry very unusual kind- bright, juicy, with black dotted eyes. It is a warty euonymus. Its fruits have a rather pleasant taste, so forest birds willingly peck them.
People who see this might think the berries are safe. But euonymus is poisonous, and all parts of this beautiful plant are dangerous. Symptoms of poisoning with attractive berries are nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, convulsions, general weakness, heart failure. Euonymus grows in deciduous groves, forests, loves oak forests and places with lime-rich soils. In settlements, it can be seen in the form of a spectacular hedge.
Some authors give recommendations on how to recognize if berries are poisonous or not. One of the main safety signs is the use of berries for food by birds and animals. However, focusing on this, you can pay with your life. So, birds, without the slightest harm to themselves, eat berries of euonymus, elderberry, nightshade, honeysuckle and others. According to statistics, berry poisoning is more common among children. Adults should explain to them which berries grow in their area. If, nevertheless, poisoning has occurred, before the arrival of the ambulance, you need to rinse the victim's stomach, give adsorbents to drink and ensure peace.
Berries are a favorite food at any time on the table. The sweet pleasant aroma of berries beckons to itself. Here are the names of berries that will make drooling, but some of the names of berries you will hear only for the first time.
You will come across some amazing berry names on the list that are actually berries. You may be confused, but some of the fruit names are not berries. The fine line that separates these fruits is the classification defined in botany.
How is the term berries understood in botany? Berries are fruits that have inner flesh, edible rind, pericarp, produced from a single ovary. In other words, this is one pulp ovary that grows in a juicy fruit, and there is no barrier between the seeds and the pulp that these seeds feed on.
Non-professional understanding of berries: All small juicy, colored fruits with pulp are berries.
Barberry: Barberry fruits are small berries that are red or dark blue in color. Barberries are long and narrow fruits. They are used for making jams and tinctures. They are rich in vitamin C.
Elder: They have antioxidant properties that reduce cholesterol levels, improve vision, strengthen the immune system, and eliminate heart problems, coughs, colds, flu, bacterial and viral infections, tonsillitis. Also added to ice cream and many other products: cocktails, jams, convenience foods, muffins and syrups.
Grape: Grapes contain vitamins A, C, and B6. They also contain potassium, calcium, magnesium, and folic acid.
Honeysuckle: They are rich in calcium, magnesium, potassium, vitamin C and quercetin (an acid that fights free radicals). Honeysuckle has been used in Chinese traditional medicine for centuries. There are some poisonous varieties of honeysuckle. Therefore, it is better to buy honeysuckle in the store than to pluck it in nature. You can read about it here.
Viburnum reddish: These berries can be eaten raw or processed. After being plucked from the tree, they quickly deteriorate, and can only be stored for 3 days in the refrigerator, or they need to be frozen, canned or dried. All parts of the plant are used in medicine.
Red Ribes: These are small round red or white berries that are used to make jams, pies and salads. They contain a lot of vitamins C, iron, potassium and dietary fiber.
Gooseberry: These are small, round, striped berries. Unripe fruits are green in color, while ripe fruits are pink to yellow in color.
Mahonia holly (oregon grapes): They look like grapes and are blue or purple in color. They look like they are covered in powder. They are known as anti-inflammatory and antibacterial agents in nature.
Sea buckthorn: These orange berries are about the size of grapes. They are rich in antioxidants and vitamins that can help you lose weight and ward off dementia.
Podofil: Podophilus grows wild, mainly in the forest. Most podophiles do not bear fruit and only have one leaf. Those that bear fruit have 2 leaves and only one flower, which then turns into a fruit. In the budding phase, the fruits are green, tough and poisonous. However, it gradually turns yellow and softens, and tastes good when ripe.
Tomato: It is a common vegetable-fruit in the human diet and is botanically classified as a berry. Tomatoes are the most common fruit in garden plots.
Currant: These are red, green, yellow or black berries. They were dried and used as raisins.
Black currant: This is a popular aromatic berry similar in appearance to red currant. From them I make jams, pies, ice cream, cakes, etc. Black currants contain vitamin C. Berries also contain potassium, phosphorus, iron and vitamin B5.
Rose hip: These are red oval berries, also known as wild rose. They are the pome fruit of the rose. Berries are rich in vitamin C.
Aronia: There are two types of chokeberry, chokeberry and red mountain ash. Purple chokeberry is a hybrid of the above berries. Berries are used to make juices, jams, etc. They are also used as a flavoring and coloring agent. Berries are high in vitamin C and antioxidants.
Asai: These small round black berries are Brazil's largest commercial crop. They make juices, cocktails and various other drinks. These berries are known for their antioxidant properties.
Barbados cherry (acerola, cherry acerola, Malpighia nude): This berry is native to the West Indies and Central America. The juice of these berries is also popular in the West Indies, as well as orange juice in America. The content of vitamin C in this berry is almost 65 times more than in an orange!
Dereza ordinary (Goji berries): Outwardly, the berries are similar to dried and shriveled berries. They are also called wolf berries. They are usually prepared before consumption. They are used to make herbal tea, wine, rice water, goji juice, etc. They contain 11 essential and 22 trace dietary minerals, 18 amino acids, 6 essential vitamins, carbohydrates, proteins, fats, dietary fiber, etc.
Irga canadian: Berries have large seeds with a hardened rind. Ripe berries are red or purple in color. They are mainly eaten by birds. The berries are sweet.
Canadian arrogance: These are seasonal berries with a stone, blue-black color. They are food for birds and animals.
Fruit tree frame: Winter fruit turns red or orange when ripe. Although the fruit is edible, it is rarely used in food. However, they are eaten with pleasure by wild birds and animals that eat them throughout the winter.
Persimmon: They are not considered berries, but they are in fact according to the botanical classification. Persimmon is red or orange in color. Contains glucose and protein. Persimmon is used medicinally.
Virginia bird cherry: Unripe red berries have a sour, astringent taste. Ripe berries are dark in color and not very tart on the palate. The berries are used to make jellies, preserves, and syrup. They require a lot of sugar or sweetener to preserve.
Emleria: Berries are oval green and tough at the time of ripening and subsequently turn reddish, while ripe berries are black-purple in color.
Cowberry: Lingonberries make jam, juice, syrup, compote, sauce, etc. Lingonberries are rich in vitamin C, provitamin A, vitamin B (B1, B2, B3), potassium, calcium, magnesium and phosphorus.
Crowberry: These dry black berries are very similar to blueberries in appearance and taste. They are used as natural food coloring... Native Americans use them to heal sore eyes. They are low in vitamins and high in water.
Cranberry: Berries are white when unripe and red when ripe. They are used to make juice, sauce, wines, etc. Eating large quantities of cranberries is very beneficial for health. Berries contain high levels of vitamin C, fiber, mineral salts, and manganese.
Bearberry: Berries are brownish red. Berries have a lot medicinal properties... Bearberry herbal tea is used in the treatment of nephritis.
Blueberry: Berries are dark blue or purple in color. They are used in jams, purees, juices, pies, and muffins. They contain high levels of antioxidants and can help prevent the development of many diseases. For example, diseases of the stomach, heart, dystrophy.
Juniper Berries: They are green when the berries are not yet ripe and are purple-black.
Boysenberry: These berries have burgundy color The shiny large juicy berries are a hybrid between raspberries, blackberries and logan berries. They are added to pies and pies.
Voskovnik: The birthplace of berries is China. The berries are dark red in color. These berries can be eaten or used to make jams, pickles, wine, and juice.
Blackberry: This berry is the most common in the UK. These are small, dark, purple berries that are the main ingredient in jams and pies. Berries contain a lot of vitamin C.
Blackberry: They belong to the blackberry family and are sweeter than blackberries. Unripe berries are dark red, while ripe berries are dark purple. However, the striking feature is that the male and female plants grow separately.
Irga: These are red berries, ripe black and blue. They are similar in size to blueberries. They are used to make jams, muffins, etc.
Irga spiky: These are sweet berries that are used to make cakes and jams.
Irga alder-leaved: This berry is native to Canada and is very similar in appearance to blueberries. Berries are rich in vitamin C, manganese, magnesium, iron, calcium, potassium, copper and carotene.
: It is the most popular fruit in the world. Various culinary dishes, jams, ice cream, sauces, pies, cakes, milkshakes, etc. are made from strawberries. Strawberries contain a high content of vitamin C, manganese and folic acid.
Loganberry: These are ruby red, sweet, juicy berries. They are used in juicing. Berries contain vitamin C, calcium, iron, potassium, fiber, and carbohydrates.
Raspberries: These are small red berries that ripen in summer or autumn. They are used to make jams, jellies, pies and ice cream. They contain a lot of vitamin C, manganese, vitamin K and magnesium.
Fragrant raspberry: The berries are red. These fruits are so fragile that they can break when you pick them up.
Raspberry purple: These are red or orange berries. Contrary to their name, they are not suitable for the production of wines due to their astringency.
Cloudberry: Ripe berries have a pleasant taste and color from yellow to orange-red. They are used to make jams, sweets, marmalade and wine. Native Americans eat these berries with dried red caviar, hence the English name Salmonberries.
Mulberry: These berries are red, purple and black. The berries are used to make pies, cakes, liqueurs and jams.
Marionberry (marion berries): It's a hybrid. They are darker than blackberries and are used to make pies, cakes, ice cream and jellies.
Olallieberries: These berries are found mainly in California. They are rich in vitamin C and fiber, which are helpful in reducing the risk of cancer.
Youngberry Large: Sweet reddish black berry, blackberry / blackcurrant hybrid. They ripen 2 weeks earlier than blackberries. Berries are rich in vitamins A, C and B1, calcium, cellulose.
Wolfberry (Wolf bast): The berries of this plant have a fragrant odor and are poisonous. Comes from Eurasia, North Africa and Australia.
Voronet: The berries grow on flowering herbaceous plants belonging to the family buttercups... Poisonous berries contain a cardiogenic toxin. These toxins affect heart muscle tissue, leading to cardiac arrest and death.
: These large berries are white in color and have a black mark that resembles an eye. The berries are very poisonous. In English, the berries are called Doll's Eyes Berries.
Lakonos(phytolacca): These dark purple berries are poisonous to humans, but birds eat them. Two species of this plant grow in Russia.
Lily of the valley: This plant is completely poisonous due to its content of convallatoxin. In Russia, it is distributed in the European part, the Mountainous Crimea, Transbaikalia, Priamurye, Primorye, Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands.
Ligustrum (privet): The berries of this plant are poisonous and have a black color. One species grows in the South of Russia. The flowers of this plant are purple in color.
False nightshade(Jerusalem cherry): These berries are poisonous, they are often confused with tomatoes. Like many relocated plants and fruits to Australia, False Nightshade has become an aggressive weed there.
Holly berries: This red berry is used as an ornamental one. If ingested, they can cause vomiting and diarrhea.
Yew berries: These are red or blue berries contain poisonous seeds. If you need to survive, consume these berries without seeds.
Such a huge selection of berries allows you to enjoy them to a sufficient extent. However, be careful when you are in nature and want to pick a berry that is not known to you hanging on bushes and plants, it can be a very poisonous berry. So the list of berries is over, please add the names of berries not mentioned in the comments!
Bittersweet nightshade is a shrub with a curly long stem (up to 2 m, and in favorable conditions and more), with a woody base.
Leaves are ovate-pointed.
Flowers - purple, in drooping racemes.
Blooms from late May to September.
Fruits - red, bitter-sweet, poisonous berries, ripen in June - October.
Nightshade red spread
Red nightshade is widespread in the European part of Russia, in the Caucasus, in Siberia and in the Far East along the shores of reservoirs, damp places, among bushes. It is often found in settlements, on the outskirts of villages, on the borders of vegetable gardens, on garbage heaps. Often, bittersweet nightshade is grown in personal plots as a decorative liana.
Poisonous parts of red nightshade
Leaves, stems and fruits are poisonous in nightshade. As the berries ripen, the poisonous properties of the berries of bittersweet nightshade, unlike black nightshade, do not disappear, since in addition to the poisonous glycoalkaloid solanine, which disappears when the berries ripen, there are other toxic substances, in particular solidulcin and dulcamarine.
Poisoning symptoms
Symptoms of poisoning with bittersweet nightshade are the same as when poisoning with other plants containing solanine and similar glycoalkaloids - abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, suppression of motor and mental activity, difficulty breathing, cardiovascular failure. First aid - gastric lavage.
Poisonous berries picture, photo - nightshade red
It is also known under the names belladonna, crassa, sleepy stupor, mad berry, mad cherry (Atropa belladonna) - a plant of the nightshade family. Perennial herb 1-2 m high with an erect thick green or violet-colored stem, forked-branched at the top.
The leaves are petiolate, broadly lanceolate, alternate, but close in pairs, and one is always much larger than the others.
Belladonna flowers are solitary, drooping, emerging from the axils of the upper leaves, bell-shaped, dirty purple (sometimes yellow) in color.
Blooms from June to late autumn.
The fruit is a shiny black-blue poisonous berry, flattened-spherical, juicy, sweet-sour, the size of a cherry.
Spreading Belladonna
Belladonna is widespread in the Crimea, the Caucasus, and the Carpathians. Occurs in clearings, forest edges, shady glades.
Belladonna's poisonous parts
All parts of the plant are poisonous. Poisoning more often occurs in children who are attracted to the poisonous belladonna berries that resemble cherries or grapes (even 2-3 berries of it can cause severe poisoning in a child). They, as well as in other parts of the plant, contain such very poisonous alkaloids as atropine, hyoscyamine, scopolamine, etc.
Poisoning symptoms
Signs of poisoning appear after 10-20 minutes. In case of mild poisoning, dryness and burning sensation in the mouth and throat, difficulty swallowing and speaking, palpitations. The voice becomes hoarse. The pupils are dilated, do not react to light. Near vision is impaired. Photophobia, flashing of flies before the eyes. Dryness and redness of the skin. Excitement, sometimes delusions and hallucinations. In severe poisoning, complete loss of orientation, sharp motor and mental agitation, sometimes convulsions.
Poisonous berries picture, photo - belladonna
Marsh calla is a succulent thick-rhizome, creeping hydrophyte (a plant that grows half in water) 20-40 cm high with large shiny rounded-heart-shaped leaves (15-20 cm) on long petioles. The cob-shaped inflorescence is surrounded by a white (green on the reverse side), leaf-shaped blanket.
The fruits are juicy red poisonous berries, collected in bunches.
It blooms in May, June, the fruits ripen from the end of June.
Calla spread
The marsh calla is widespread throughout Russia in swamps and swampy shores of water bodies.
Poisonous parts of calla
The whole plant is poisonous, especially poisonous berries and rhizomes. Calla contains pungent saponin-like compounds, as well as volatiles aroin type with irritating properties.
Symptoms of calla poisoning
Nausea, vomiting, salivation, diarrhea, shortness of breath, tachycardia, convulsions. First aid - gastric lavage and laxatives.
Poisonous berries picture, photo - marsh calla
Euonymus is a deciduous shrub (sometimes a small tree) 3-4 meters high, with "classic" elongated leaves, small greenish nondescript flowers.
Euonymus blooms in May-June. The fruits ripen fully in September-October.
The fruits are beautiful bright pink four-part capsules containing usually black seeds inside, covered (sometimes not completely) with fleshy orange or red flesh. As they ripen, the bolls open.
Spread of Euonymus
Euonymus is found in the European part of Russia, in the Caucasus, some species grow in the Far East (up to Eastern Siberia), Sakhalin, Kuril Islands.
The poisonous parts of Euonymus
The spindle tree has everything - roots, bark, leaves, but the greatest danger is posed by poisonous berries, which attract with their bright appearance.
Symptoms of Euonymus poisoning
Eating poisonous euonymus berries in food causes vomiting and diarrhea, large doses of berries can provoke intestinal bleeding.
Poisonous berries picture, photo - euonymus
Privet is a genus of rather thermophilic shrubs of the olive family. Common privet is a deciduous shrub up to 5 meters high.
Leaves are simple, opposite. Inflorescences are white, similar to lilac flowers, also collected in panicles.
The fruit is a black berry. Privet blooms in May-July, after the appearance of leaves on it. Privet
The berries are poisonous, ripen in September-October and do not fall off for a long time.
Spread of Privet
On the territory of the former USSR, common privet is found in its natural form. The halo of its distribution is the southwestern part of Russia, the Caucasus, Ukraine and Moldova.
Poisonous parts of Privet
The leaves and berries of the plant are poisonous. The leaves are unlikely to be eaten by anyone, but the berries are quite similar to bird cherry.
Symptoms of Privet poisoning
After eating poisonous privet berries in 1-2 hours, diarrhea, colic, weakness, loss of coordination, convulsions occur, in severe cases, death is possible.
Poisonous berries picture, photo - privet
Herbal elder is a herbaceous perennial of the honeysuckle family with an unpleasant odor, with a thick creeping rhizome, a thick furrowed (sometimes sparsely pubescent) stem 60-170 cm high.
Leaves with stipules, large (17-25 cm), pinnate with 7-11 pointed leaves, pubescent along the veins.
The inflorescence of herbal elderberry is an umbrella-shaped panicle. The flowers are small, inconspicuous, white or reddish. Herbal elderberry blooms in May - June.
Herbal elderberry fruits are black small berry-like drupes with 3-4 seeds and red juice. Elderberry herbaceous in August - September bears fruit.
Elderberry herbal spread
Elderberry is widespread in the southern part of Russia in the foothills and mountains, along the edges of forests and subalpine meadows. Often found as a weed.
Poisonous parts of Elderberry herbal
Elderberry herbal leaves and flowers are poisonous. Unripe berries of herbal elderberry are especially poisonous.
Symptoms of elderberry poisoning
The main symptoms of poisoning with herbal elderberry poisonous berries are dizziness, headache, weakness, sore throat, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting. Characteristic is the staining of the mucous membranes in blue as a result of the accumulation of oxyhemoglobin in the venous blood. Tachycardia is replaced in the later stages by bradycardia. Shortness of breath with a delay in exhalation is observed, convulsions are possible. Death occurs from respiratory arrest on the background of acute heart failure.
Poisonous berries picture, photo - herbal elderberry
Daphne is a short bush called a wolf bast or wolfberry. In April, the twigs of Daphne, a meter and a half in height, are almost entirely covered with bunches of bright pink flowers, very similar to the color of lilac. A delicate peculiar aroma spreads from flowering plants. Daphne leaves are narrow, dark green. Poisonous berries - oval, first green, then red, ripen at the end of July-August.
Daffodil Spread
Daphne grows in the north of the European part of Russia, Western and Eastern Siberia, in the Caucasus. Prefers coniferous and mixed forests. It is also found in deciduous forests.
Toxic parts of the Wolfberry
The flowers of the wolfberry are poisonous. Inhalation of daphne pollen causes irritation of the mucous membranes of the nose and respiratory tract. Not only flowers are poisonous, but the whole plant. No wonder one of the names of Daphne is deadly wolfberry.
The bark of wolf bast is unusually bitter in taste and, when ingested, causes a burning sensation and a scratching sensation. Subsequently, blisters and ulcers form on the mucous membranes. Touching the wet bark of daphne, wolfberry, to the skin can lead to the formation of ulcers.
The juice of the leaves and poisonous berries of wolf bast is no less burning. It is extremely dangerous to get wolfberry juice in the eyes. This threatens the formation of hard-to-heal corneal lesions.
Symptoms of Wolf's Bast Poisoning
After eating poisonous berries, there is a burning sensation in the mouth, pain in the stomach, nausea, vomiting, weakness, convulsions are possible. But wolf's bast contains not only meserein, which strongly irritates the skin and mucous membranes, but also other toxic substances, in particular several types of coumarins, which cause increased bleeding.
Poisonous berries picture, photo - wolfberry
Spiked crow is a perennial poisonous herb up to 80 cm high, with a thin branched stem, with large, on long petioles, twice and thrice feathery leaves. The edges of the leaves are coarsely serrated.
The flowers are white or cream, small, collected in a fluffy panicle.
The berries are green at first, black when ripe, glossy, large, oval-cylindrical with a well-visible trace of the perianth. The berries are collected in a brush.
Distribution of Voronets spike-shaped black
The spiky black crow grows in the European part of Russia, in the Caucasus, in Western Siberia, in Altai, but it is quite rare. Prefers shady, humid places in deciduous, coniferous and mixed forests. Usually grows in thickets of shrubs and trees. The spiky black raven does not like open spaces. Blossoms in May-June; berries ripen in July-August.
Poisonous parts of Voronets spiky
The whole plant is very poisonous. Particularly poisonous are the berries of the black spike-shaped crow.
Symptoms of Vorontsov spike poisoning
The sap of the plant irritates the human skin, up to the formation of blisters. And even a small amount of the pulp of a poisonous berry is enough to cause severe gastrointestinal upset.
Poisonous berries picture, photo - black raven
Red raven is a perennial herb. Stems are thin, up to 70 cm high.
Leaves are usually thrice pinnate, serrated at the edges. Outwardly, the red raven is very similar to the spiked raven, but differs from it, first of all, in the color of the fruits, slightly smaller berries, and also in the lighter color of the leaves.
Flowers are small, white, collected in a vertical brush-panicle.
The berries of the red-fruited Voronets are oblong-oval, medium-sized, at first green, whiten as they ripen, and then turn red. Located on a vertical brush.
Distribution of Voronets red-fruited
The red-flowered raven grows in coniferous and mixed forests, in the Far East, in Siberia and in the north of the European part of Russia.
Poisonous parts of Voronets red-fruited
All parts of the plant are poisonous. The most toxic are the berries of the red-fruited Voronets. Eating only two poisonous berries for a child can end tragically. But accidental poisoning with the berries of the red-fruited crow is hardly possible, since the plant has an unpleasant odor, and the berries are very bitter.
Poisoning symptoms
Signs of poisoning with berries of the red-fruited Voronets - nausea, dizziness, increased heart rate, severe upset of the gastrointestinal tract.
Poisonous berries picture, photo - Red crow
The raven eye is a very distinctive perennial plant. A low stem framed by spreading, usually four (less often, as in the photo, five) wide leaves, ends in one single nondescript greenish flower that blooms in July-June. Then the raven eye turns the flower into one berry, which turns black by autumn. The raven eye is also known as the cross-grass.
Spread of Crow's Eye
The raven eye grows in shady, humid places of coniferous, deciduous and mixed forests, throughout the temperate zone of Russia from Europe to the Far East. The raven eye is considered a medicinal plant, but it is better not to collect or use it yourself, since the raven eye is a poisonous plant.
Poisonous Parts of Crow's Eye
The raven eye berry, like other parts of the plant, is poisonous. The plant contains saponins and cardiac glycosides.
Crow's Eye Poisoning Symptoms
Poisoning with poisonous berries or other parts of the raven's eye causes irritation of the gastrointestinal tract, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, a sharp drop in heart rate to 60-40 or less beats per minute, heart rhythm disturbances, ventricular flutter and cardiac arrest.
Poisonous berries picture, photo - Lily of the valley
If you experience symptoms of poisoning such as fever, diarrhea, vomiting, seizures, etc., seek immediate medical attention. While the doctor is going to you, do not sit idly by. Indeed, sometimes the arrival of an ambulance can drag on for more than one hour.
The most first aid for poisoning with poisonous berries consists in stimulating vomiting - this procedure will free the stomach from toxic contents. To do this, the victim needs to be given 2-4 glasses of water (activated carbon can be added to it - 2 tablespoons per 500 ml, salt - 1 tsp per 500 ml or potassium permanganate). In case of poisoning with poisonous berries, the procedure will have to be carried out several times. Of the medicines, it is recommended to give the patient activated charcoal, tannin, as well as any laxative and heart remedy. If you have seizures, you will have to use chloral hydrate. If there is no first aid kit, you can give the patient black crackers, starch solution or milk. It will also not hurt to do an enema (if possible). A victim of poisoning with poisonous berries should be wrapped warmly and taken to a doctor.
Earlier on the topic:
Before writing an extensive article about northern berries, I would like to know which areas can generally be attributed to them. So, for example, in Russia these areas can be considered the Kola Peninsula, Karelia, a strip of tundra, taiga up to Chukotka. In general, the entire upper part of Russia. And in the whole world, these areas can be considered Norway, Finland, Canada, Iceland, Greenland, Canada and Alaska. In the Southern Hemisphere, these areas include only the south of South America, the Falkland Islands.
After we have decided which areas belong to them, then the berries will be described further grouped by special groups. So first poisonous berries will be described, then the berries that grow in these areas, but they are not usually called "local" and the berries that are usually attributed to them.
To begin with, I would like to tell you about two berries that are not worth eating.
The first berry is alpine arctous... Residents of the Magadan region know it under the name "wolfberry" and consider the fruits deadly. A medicinal plant, but in large quantities, the fruits can cause a number of painful phenomena, vomiting. The berry resembles lingonberry in shape, but these are juicy drupes - mealy and tasteless. Birds eat them, but they can harm a person, cause painful sensations, even vomiting. In folk medicine, only the leaves of this plant are used, so picking berries is practically useless. Plays a significant role in the formation of the dwarf layer of tundra and woodlands. Protected in reserves. The berries are mealy, at first red, then black-purple. Blooms in June and early July before the leaves open. Fruiting in August-September.
The next 100% poisonous berry is raven eye... Berries appear in May - early June and until October. Grows in coniferous and mixed forests, loves moisture. The danger of the raven eye is that the berries are very similar to blueberries and grow this plant where blueberries grow. And with inattention, you can safely grab these poisonous berries. 5-10 berries can cause severe human poisoning. In case of poisoning, urgent hospitalization is needed. It is easy to recognize this plant, since one berry grows on one stalk. The berries taste unpleasant; in some people, even the smell of a raven's eye can cause nausea or headaches.
Everything, I did not find more known poisonous berries in these areas. Perhaps there are some other inedible berries, but there is little information about them on the Internet.
There is another berry that is not poisonous, but of no interest to humans. This berry Swedish dogwood.
It is a shrub up to 25 cm. The fruit is a red berry-shaped drupe. Swedish dogwood is not poisonous, but its berries are loose and tasteless, with large hard seeds. Swedish dogwood, along with Canadian turf, was eaten by Canadian Indians and Eskimos. The berries vaguely resemble a bunch of lingonberries, the same bright red. However, if there is a hollow on the lingonberry at the tip of the berry, then there is a black dot.
Dogwood canadian or dogwood canadian... The range of this plant is in East Asia (Russia, China, Japan) and in North America (USA, Canada). As already mentioned, these berries were eaten by Canadian Indians and Eskimos.
Now let's look at three types of berries that are quite rare in the northern regions.
The first berry will be rose hip.
It can also grow in the tundra area under several conditions in the area. And for ripening, a long warm summer is necessary, with small frosts, the berries will begin to rot. Rosehip fruits contain vitamin C, which is more than lemon. There are also vitamins of group B, K, P, carotene, sugars and other trace elements.
The second berry will be currant, both red and black. By chemical composition black currant berries are a natural concentrate of vitamins, especially vitamin C, which is so necessary for the human body. Berries contain up to 85% water, 0.9% ash, 1% proteins, 8% carbohydrates, 3% fiber, 2.3% organic acids (citric, malic, tartaric, succinic, salicylic, phosphoric ), 0.5% - pectin substances, 0.4% - tannins, dyes of P-vitamin activity, vitamins K, E, B, B2, PP and carotene. Trace elements include potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus and iron.
Red currant berries significantly exceed black ones in the amount of vitamin A.
And the third berry will be raspberries... Also, special conditions are needed for raspberries to ripen.
That's it, now let's move on to the real "local" berries, which most people have probably heard of.
This berry is known to everyone, it contains a lot of vitamins and minerals. The berry grows in swampy areas. It has a creeping stem 15 to 50 cm long. Flowers are small pink. Cranberries bloom in June, and ripen only at the end of September. In nature, all types of cranberries grow in damp places: in transitional and raised bogs, in sphagnum coniferous forests, and sometimes along swampy shores of lakes. Cranberries are rich in vitamin C, in this they equate to oranges, lemons, grapefruits, garden strawberries. Among other vitamins, fruits contain B 1, B 2, B 5, B 6, PP. Cranberries are a valuable source of vitamin K 1 (phylloquinone), not inferior to cabbage and strawberries. Cranberries are used for the preparation of fruit drinks, juices, kvass, extracts, jelly, are good sources of vitamins. The leaves can be consumed as tea.
Black pomegranate is also called northern pomegranate, because it looks like pomegranate seeds in consistency and shape. It tastes like cherry, sour and sweetish. There is a bone inside. Drupe is a herbaceous perennial, its fruits are bright red, consist of several drupes. There can be up to 6 drupes. Drupes can be barely connected to each other, resembling raspberries. The fruits ripen from July to September. The bone plant loves to grow in the tundra, in the mountainous areas. The fruits are eaten fresh, and harvested for future use.
Perennial green shrub honey plant. The size of the bush reaches thirty centimeters. The berries are pretty big size, which is a drupe. They have a bright red color or orange with a reddish tint.
The composition of the fruits is distinguished by the presence of:
- ascorbic acid;
- pectin and tanning microelements;
- vitamin C.
The presence of these elements allows you to strengthen human immunity, lower body temperature, and improve blood circulation. Allows to heal inflammatory reactions.
Perennial green shrub. The size of the bush can reach twenty centimeters. Lingonberries have a distinct red color. Berries of small size have a sweet taste with the presence of sourness. They sing in the last days of August.
Carbohydrates;
- organic acids;
- vitamins A, C, E;
- glucose, fructose.
A dangerous sign is the plant's ability to absorb radioactive elements. The consumption of such berries contributes to the deterioration of human health. It is recommended to pick berries away from industrial companies and roads.
Lingonberry can be confused with bearberry ("bear ears"). It is easy to distinguish them: the bearberry has narrower elongated leaves that look like ears. Bearberry is not poisonous and you can eat it, but the berry has practically no taste and has no culinary value. Bearberry berries are used in folk medicine in the treatment of diseases of various organs and systems of the body.
A low-growing dwarf shrub with round-shaped fruits of black color. Small fruits are sweet in taste. The berries are harvested in the middle of summer, with the foliage being torn in the month of May. Quite often, these fruits are harvested in dried form.
The presence of useful elements (essential oils, iron, organic acids, vitamins) found in fruits and blueberry leaves is noted. Blueberries are able to prevent the development of malignant tumors and have a healing effect on existing tumors.
Perennial green shrub. The size of the bush reaches one and a half meters. Blueberries are black in color with a bluish overflow. Fruits are small in size, watery with a slight sweet taste.
The following elements are observed in the composition:
- cellulose;
- vitamins B1 (2), PP, C, A, P;
- tannins;
- glucose, fructose.
Moreover, these substances are simultaneously located in the berries and foliage of the plant.
The use of blueberries is conducive to increasing attention, reducing fever, relieving inflammation, strengthening blood vessels and is involved in the fight against sclerosis.
An overdose of these fruits often contributes to muscle malfunction.
Perennial creeping dwarf shrub. Crowberry berries are distinguished by red and black colors. The fruits are harvested from July to early spring. This is due to the preservation of the berries even in a frozen state. The size of the shrub reaches one meter. The fruits are tasteless, insipid.
The content is noted in the fruits:
- tanning elements;
- mineral trace elements;
- vitamins A, C;
- essential oils.
Vodyanika is unique in that it well stabilizes the metabolism and the nervous system, relieves migraines, and enhances the diuretic process.
South American species with red berries. On the bushes, occasionally come across black berries, showing a relationship with the original species, black crowberry.
Perennial creeping shrub. The size of the bush can reach fifteen centimeters. Ripe fruits turn amber-yellow. During the growth period, they have a red tint.
The content is observed in the berry:
- magnesium;
- calcium;
- potassium and iron;
- phosphorus and silicon;
- vitamins C, B1 (3), PP, A.
The use of cloudberries helps to improve cardiac activity, restore the affected cells of the body and is useful in the manifestations of oncology.
Taking berries for disorders of the gastrointestinal tract can contribute to allergic manifestations.
The princess has different names - kumanika, arctic raspberry, raspberry, meadow, mamura, drupe, khokhlushka, noon. A perennial green shrub, the roots of which are buried up to 25 cm. Its taste is reminiscent of a pineapple. The princess belongs to the pink family. The berry has the appearance of a drupe, which takes on a red, light pink or purple color. Maturation takes place in July.
The fruits contain:
- vitamin C;
- carbohydrates;
- lemon acid;
- ascorbic acids;
- tanning elements.
The prince helps to reduce the symptoms of colds and cure vitamin deficiency.
It is considered the best northern berry.
The assignment of mountain ash to northern berries is, of course, a controversial issue, since common mountain ash has the widest habitat - from the northern regions of Europe (up to the Far North) to northern Africa, but still I think it is worth mentioning here.
Rowan berries are red, collected in a cluster with a strong sour and tart aftertaste. It is best to harvest it after the first frost.
The fruits of mountain ash contain a lot of vitamin P and carotene, from which vitamin A is synthesized in the human body, organic acids, sugar, tannins, ascorbic acid, essential oils and other compounds are present.
Juniper is not a berry, but a cone berry, because it belongs to gymnosperms. Juniper is used more as a seasoning for various dishes. You also need to be careful, because there are poisonous types of juniper.
Bitter berry
Shrub of the honeysuckle family with white flowers and bitter berries
Shrub of the honeysuckle family, a symbol of purity and love
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G. in the chorus of Kalinka, Kalinochka, Kalinushka, tree and fruit of Viburnum opulus. They generally take the berry; the apples are shaking; viburnum break, bunches. tale. Kalinov's bridges are remembered: this is a hamlet, paved with brushwood, viburnum, a road through a swamp. Red-hot viburnum, melted, baked in a free spirit under a lid tightly smeared with dough. Another type: Lantana, black viburnum, gordovina, gord, gordina. Oh my viburnum, oh my raspberry, chorus. Do not be raspberry viburnum. Kalinin tree, shrub viburnum. Breaking Kalinka, wedding custom: on the table, young people have a ham and a bottle of wine, stuffed with a bunch of viburnum with a scarlet ribbon; They raise the young and go to the bowls, go to the houses of the bride's parents, relatives, go out, and when they come back, the friend breaks the ham and, having plucked the viburnum, carry the wine. Viburnum, viburnum, rel. to viburnum, tree or fruit, made of them, etc. Viburnum shoots are drunk from scrofula. Kalinovka viburnum liqueur, on berries, or tincture, on leaves, shoots. Kalinniak, Psk. hard. viburnum, viburnum grove. Kalinnik, viburnum grove, shrub; viburnum brushwood, sweethearts, for shanks; viburnum pie; dough, which is kneaded on viburnum; hunter to viburnum. Kalinniki mi. east distant autumn thunderstorms, glow, lightning, in the name of St. Kalinik, and July; in the north, early autumn frosts, which is why the saying goes: God carry the Kalinniki in a hassle, that is, cloudy weather. Kalinka bleak fish, Surrinus alburnus
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KALINA
A small tree or shrub of the honeysuckle family with white flowers and red berries.
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Synonyms:KALINA- Yakovlev, Dvinsky kissing man. 1571. A. Yu. 58. Kalina Rodionov, Dvinsky kissing agent. 1571. A. Yu. 58. Kalina Stefanov, Belozersk peasant. 1613. A. Yu. 74. In the name of Maxim, hegumen, nicknamed Kalina, in Rostov. XIV century. Memory. Antique Russian Literat ... Biographical Dictionary
KALINA- wives. in the chorus Kalinka, Kalinochka, Kalinushka, tree and fruit of Viburnum opulus. They generally take the berry; the apples are shaking; viburnum break, bunches. V · skaz. Kalinov's bridges are remembered: this is a hamlet, 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, giving an edible fruit drupe spherical ovoid, red, slightly smaller in size than mountain ash, colloquially called a berry, which has a peculiar sweetish sour ... ... Culinary vocabulary
Viburnum- 1) s, husband. Spread. k (see Kallinik). Rep .: Kalinich, Kalinichna. 2) s, women. Spread. to (see Kallinikia). Dictionary of personal names. Kalina "Wonderful" (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, North. Africa and America; there are several types in Russia. Many species are cultivated as decorative, for example, the garden form of the 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. belts, ch. arr. in Eurasia and North. America. In the USSR approx. 10 wild species, approx. 40 (most native to 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
Viburnum- (Viburnum L.) genus of shrubs from this. honeysuckle, Caprifoliceae. Leaves are opposite, simple, entire, toothed or lobed; flowers are collected in whorled inflorescences, with a regular wheel-like corolla, 5 stamens and a three-nested ovary, two ... ... Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
KALINA- KALINA, a genus of small trees or shrubs (honeysuckle family). About 200 species in Eurasia, North Africa and America. Many are decorative, for example, the buldenezh garden form of the common viburnum. The fruits of this species are edible. Extract and decoction ... ... Modern encyclopedia
KALINA- KALINA, viburnum, many others. no, wives. Honeysuckle shrub 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, wives. Shrub this honeysuckle with white flowers and red bitter berries, as well as its berries. | decrease. Kalinka, and, wives. | adj. viburnum, oh, oh. Ozhegov's Explanatory Dictionary. S.I. Ozhegov, N.Yu. Shvedova. 1949 1992 ... Ozhegov's Explanatory Dictionary
It is small fleshy either juicy fruits collected from shrubs and herbs. You need to understand that in botany, fruits are classified in their own way (a tomato is considered a berry, and raspberries and strawberries are considered fruits). To avoid confusion, fruits are distinguished from berries mainly by their size. Mankind has been consuming berries for almost its entire century: even under the primitive communal system, gathering helped to survive. These fruits are appreciated even now: for their taste, low calorie content and rich vitamin and mineral composition.
It is a source of essential amino acids, antioxidants, vitamins and minerals. It is low in calories and fat, but it contains fiber. These berries have long been used in cosmetology, and now their properties are being actively studied by doctors. When consumed in moderation, watermelon helps maintain the 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 belongs to the genus of shrubs, less often trees, the Barberry family. These are deciduous, semi-evergreen (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. It also has another name - caramel tree.
Lingonberry is a perennial, low, evergreen, branching dwarf shrub, reaching a height of 10 to 20 cm. The leaves are small, petiolate, leathery, shiny. Flowers are pink-white bells, 5mm long, collected at the top of the branches in rare brushes. Blooms in May - early June. Lingonberry fruits are small in size, bright red berries with a characteristic sweet and sour taste. Ripens in August-September. Lingonberry is a wild forest berry. Found in the tundra, as well as in forest areas, in the temperate climatic zone.
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, pinnate. 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 shrubs on the edges of forests in the middle zone of the European part of Russia, in the Ukraine, in the Baltic States and Belarus, in the Crimea, in the Caucasus, in the southeast of Russia. Elderberry grows in both sunny and shady places. Reproduction is carried out by dividing old bushes, layering and sowing seeds.
Already in ancient times, grapes and their derivatives were valued not only for their taste, 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 contribute to the fight against free radicals. Even a high sugar content does not spoil the berry, since it also contains substances that improve the absorption of glucose.
Goji Berries ( common dereza) or Lycium barbarum refers to a group of plants with a common collective name "wolfberry". By the way, not all plants of this group have a toxic effect on humans - some of its species have unique healing properties. Since ancient times, goji berry in Chinese medicine has been used to increase libido in women and men, as well as to raise mood and improve well-being in stressful situations. It is believed that this plant contributes to the fight against cancer cells, enhances immunity and prolongs life.
Blueberry is a small shrub up to 1 meter high with gray smooth curved branches. Leaves 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 a drunkard or a gonobel because they supposedly get drunk and drive a pain in the head. But in fact, the culprit of these phenomena is wild rosemary, which often grows next to blueberries.
Blueberries are harvested raw and processed for consumption. Jam is made from them, and also used to make wine.
A tree or shrub, usually with several trunks 1.5-2.5 m high, rarely up to 3 m and more.
Leaves are dark green, oval, pubescent below, strongly corrugated, with a pointed end. The flowers are white, white with pink (rarely pink), up to 2.5 cm in diameter. Cherry fruits are oval drupes, red when ripe, sweet (sometimes sour) in taste, smaller than ordinary cherries (0.8-1.5 cm in diameter), covered with a small downy. 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.
Plant of the Pumpkin family, a species of the genus Cucumber, melon culture, false berry.
Melon is a warm and light-loving plant, resistant to soil salinity and drought, poorly tolerates high humidity. On one plant, depending on the variety and place of cultivation, from two to eight fruits, weighing from 1.5 to 10 kg, can be formed. Melon fruits are spherical or cylindrical, green, yellow, brown or white in color, usually with green stripes. Melon ripening period is from two to six months.
A perennial shrub of the genus Rubus, belonging to the Rosaceae family. Blackberries are widespread in the northern and temperate latitudes of the Eurasian continent, in coniferous and mixed forests, in the floodplains of rivers, in the forest-steppe zone. There are practically no garden blackberries, so lovers of this berry have to rely on the favor of nature and wait good harvest this wild berry.
Strawberry is a perennial herb of the Rosaceae family up to 20 cm high. The rhizome is short, oblique, with numerous adventitious brownish-brown, thin roots. The stem is erect, leafy, covered with hairs. Leaves on long petioles, trifoliate, dark green above, bluish-green below, soft 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 one, incorrectly called a berry. It is an overgrown fleshy, fragrant, bright red receptacle. Strawberries ripen in July - September.
An amazing plant of the Rosaceae family. It is undemanding to growing conditions, is able to tolerate frosts normally down to -40 -50 degrees, and during flowering, frost to -5 -7 degrees. Irga grows well on soils of different composition and acidity. But there is an indispensable condition - if you want to get a harvest of large, sweet berries with a fresh aroma, you need to take a sunny place for the irge. Therefore, the irga bushes should be located at a distance of at least 2.5-3 m, unless you aim to grow a tall hedge, for which the irga is very suitable.
lat. Viburnum
A red berry with a fairly large pit. Viburnum ripens at the end of September after the first frost. Prior to this, the berry is quite sour with a bitterness, and under the influence of slight frosts it acquires sweetness. It is widely used in folk medicine.
Shrub 5-7 meters high, sometimes a small tree. Dogwood has been cultivated by mankind for a very long time, historians report on the bones of dogwood found more than 5 thousand years ago on excavations of human settlements located on the territory of modern Switzerland. Today, 4 types of dogwood are cultivated in most of Europe (France, Italy, Eastern Europe, Ukraine, Moldova, Russia), the Caucasus, Central Asia, China, Japan and North America.
Strawberry is a perennial herb, 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-petal, white, with a double perianth. Between the beginning of flowering of strawberries and the beginning of ripening of strawberries, a period of 20 to 26 days passes.
Represents evergreen, shrub with thin and low shoots. The length of the shoots is about 30 cm on average, the berries of wild cranberries 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 lasts all autumn. Plantation berries ripen 1-2 weeks earlier than wild ones. Cranberries can easily be stored until spring.
Red currant is a small deciduous perennial shrub of the Gooseberry family (Grossulariaceae). Unlike black currant, the bushes are more compressed and elongated upward. Strong and thick annual shoots that grow from the base of the bush go to its formation and replace old, dying branches, but over the years their progressive growth dies out.
A 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 slight shading, but is quite hygrophilous. The gooseberry root system is located at a depth of 40 cm. It is best placed along the fence at a distance of 1-1.5 m from the bush bush. Over time, they grow, forming a solid barbed wall.
Schisandra is a large climbing liana shrub from the magnoliaceae family. Its length reaches fifteen meters, and twisting around trees, lemongrass resembles vine... The stem is 2 centimeters thick. The plant takes the form of a bush in the northern regions. Schisandra berries are 2-seed, bright red, juicy, globular, 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 - lemongrass.
The deciduous shrub Rubus idaeus, or Common Raspberry, is found all over the world, from Alaska and the Aleutian Islands to Hawaii. Among the people, the fruits of raspberries are called berries, which does not correspond to their definition in the botanical classification. From this position, the more accurate name for the raspberry fruit is "polystyanka".
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."
A small perennial herb with a creeping, branched rhizome. The stem is simple, erect. 10-15 cm in height, ends with a single white flower. Leaves are wrinkled, heart-shaped, with a lobed edge. Cloudberry fruit is a composite drupe, initially reddish, and amber-yellow when ripe. Cloudberry blooms in May-Nyune, ripens in July and August. The fruit is sour-spicy, wine.
A shrub or small tree, reaching a height of three to four meters with branches covered with small thorns and slightly elongated green leaves.
The sea buckthorn is pollinated by the wind, blooms in late spring. 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, on the branches they sit very closely, as if they are clinging to them. Berries have a rather pleasant sweet and sour taste, as well as a peculiar, unique aroma, which is quite remotely reminiscent of pineapple. That is why sea buckthorn is sometimes called northern, or Siberian, pineapple.
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 it reaches 10-11 meters or more. The trunk is covered with gray bark, gnarled, twisted, usually hollow in old age. Branches are knotty, long. The leaves are narrow-lanceolate, gray-green in color, do not fall off for the winter and renew gradually over the course of two to three years. Fragrant flowers are very small, 2 to 4 centimeters long, whitish, in one inflorescence from 10 to 40 flowers. Fruit - olives, elongated-oval, 0.7 to 4 centimeters long and 1 to 2 centimeters in diameter, with a pointed or blunt nose, fleshy, olives contain a stone in their insides.
A tree up to 10 m tall, less often 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, become tasty, somewhat sweet. Blooms in May - early June. The fruits ripen in September, remaining on the tree until deep winter.
In nature, mountain ash is found in forests and mountainous areas of the northern and middle parts of the northern hemisphere. Quite easy to care for, most rowan trees look great for most of the year.
Blackthorn 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.
Thorn leaves are elliptical or obovate. Young leaves are pubescent, with age they become dark green, with a matte sheen, leathery. The fruits of thorns are generally round, small (10-15mm in diameter), black-blue in color with a waxy coating.
Until now, not every resident of our country knows what a feijoa looks like. Some of these exotic berries are mistaken for a small cucumber, while others are for an avocado. Feijoa's taste is also vague - either strawberry or pineapple. It seems that something about this berry is generally difficult to say for sure. It is believed that feijoa contains a huge amount of deficient iodine, but the opinion about the high concentration of this element is disputed. Feijoa is called a "capricious" product for the inability of the fruit to be stored for more than a week, but this is only partly true. The truth about feijoa is being helped by research, which has recently been carried out with increasing frequency.
Physalis vulgaris (perennial, cherry, marunka) is a perennial plant from the Solanaceae family 50-100 cm high. The underground shoots of physalis are creeping, woody, branching. Its stems are erect. angularly curved. Physalis fruit is a spherical, juicy, orange or red berry, enclosed in a fiery orange swollen, bubble-shaped. almost spherical cup, thanks to which the plant got its name physalis from the Greek word "physo", which means swollen. The plant blooms in May - August. Physalis fruits ripen in June - September. Grows everywhere in light forests, among bushes, on forest edges, in ravines.
A perennial shrub belonging to the gooseberry family, reaches up to 1.5 m in height with lowered yellowish-gray shoots, brownish by the end of summer. Black currant leaves are alternate, petiolate, three-, five-lobed, glabrous above, below - with golden glands along the veins, with a fragrant specific odor, up to 12 cm wide. Flowers 7-9 mm long, purple or pinkish-gray, five-membered, collected on 5-10 in drooping clusters 3-8 cm long. The fruit of the black currant is a multi-seeded black or dark purple fragrant round shiny berry with a diameter of 7-10 mm. Blossoms in May - June; fruits ripen in July - August.
Perennial undersized shrub from the genus Vaccinium of the Heather family, 15-30 cm high.
Stems are erect, branched, smooth. Blueberry rhizome is long, creeping. Leaves are elliptical, smooth, light green, leathery, 10-30 mm long, covered with sparse hairs and serrate-toothed edges. Blooms in May-June. Flowers are greenish-white with a pink tinge, solitary. They are located on short pedicels in the axils of the upper leaves. Blueberries are juicy, black, with a bluish-gray bloom, shiny. The pulp is dark red, juicy, soft, with many seeds. Ripens in July-August. Blueberries bear fruit in the second or third year.
A large deciduous shrub or tree of the Rosaceae family (Rosaceae), up to 10 m in height, with a dense elongated crown, with a dull, cracking dark gray bark, on which large rusty-brown or white lentils are clearly distinguished. The inner layer of bird cherry bark is yellow, with a characteristic almond scent. Young branches are light olive, short pubescent, later cherry-red, glabrous; the bark is yellow from the inside, with a pungent characteristic odor. The leaves are alternate, short-petiolate, oblong-elliptical, narrowed at both ends, serrate-toothed along the edge. White flowers with a strong odor are collected in multi-flowered drooping racemes. Blossoms in May; fruits ripen in July - August. The fruit of the bird cherry is black, glossy, spherical, tart to the taste, strongly astringent drupe with one stone. The stone is round-ovate, sinuous-notch.
Perennial, wild plant of the Pink family. People call it a wild rose. Rosehip is not a tall bush from 1.5-2.5 m in height with arched branches hanging down, covered with strong crescent thorns. Young shoots of rose hips are greenish-red with awl-like thorns and bristles. The flowers are pink or white pink, with five loose petals, the corolla is up to 5 cm in diameter. The rose hips bloom in May-June. Fruits are berry-like (up to 20 mm long), red-orange, of various shapes, with many hairy achenes, ripen in September-October.
The original shrub with red berries can decorate any garden plot. This is a real benefit and original natural beauty for the garden. A huge selection of cultivated plants with bitter and sour, large and small berries will fit into any design in an original way and become a bright accent spot.
The most famous shrub with red bitter berries is viburnum, which has exquisite external beauty and many useful and medicinal properties. Another shrub with red sour berries is also widespread in household plots. This is a red currant. The third culture is not quite a shrub type, but it can be formed in a similar way. It's about mountain ash.
Thorny shrub with red berries - euonymus, dogwood, gooseberry, etc. You can find out all the names of such cultures and see them in the photo further on this page. Their combination will help you get the most out of personal plot and at the same time give the territory an unusual and aesthetically attractive appearance. But be careful - some shrubs with red berries are potentially dangerous to human life and health. In no case should you plant wolf berries in your garden.
This ordinary cotoneaster garden shrub with red fruits is not very popular, although it tolerates winters and heat very well. Tall stems are pubescent, but over time, the cover disappears. The foliage is wide, rounded. The flowers are white with a pink tint, collected in inflorescences. The berries are bright red.
Cotoneaster horizontal or creeping evergreen shrub, the crown of which grows violently in width. The foliage is oval, green in color, and by autumn it becomes orange-red. The berries are bright pink in color and can hang all winter. This species is demanding on the quality of the soil. 
Dammer's cotoneaster. This shrub with red berries grows wild mainly in mountainous areas. The stems also spread and, because of this, they are prone to self-rooting. The height does not exceed 30 cm, but the width can be very voluminous.
The foliage is small, rounded, acquires a purple hue by autumn. Inflorescences are reddish. The fruits are pink, also remain on the branches for a long time and have a beautiful appearance.
Has a hybrid variety Coral Beauty, which is slightly higher than the original plant and has increased winter hardiness. 
The multi-flowered cotoneaster grows above 2 meters. The stems are slightly pubescent, but become bare with aging. The young foliage of a shrub with red berries is grayish in color, turns green by summer, and turns red by autumn. The flowers are relatively large and form large inflorescences. The fruits are bright red.
In general, tolerates frost well, but not as resistant as Shiny. Demanding on the nutrient content of the soil.
Alaunsky cotoneaster - this shrub with red berries is listed in the Red Book. Distributed in mountains or river valleys. It grows up to 2 meters, has small pink flowers, and its fruits are first red, and then change color to black. 
Hawthorn is a large shrub with red berries or a small tree up to 5 m (sometimes 10-12 m) high. Young branches are purple-brown, shiny, covered with rare, thick, straight spines up to 4 cm long. Its medicinal and aesthetic effect makes the plant widespread in horticultural culture.
Leaves are alternate, obovate or broadly rhombic with a wedge-shaped base, pointed, shallowly three-lobed serrate, shortly pubescent on both sides, 2-6 cm long, located on short petioles. The color is dark green in summer, orange-red in autumn.
Flowers with five petals, white or slightly pink, united in dense corymbose inflorescences with a diameter of 4-5 cm. They have a weak specific smell.
Fruits of a shrub with red berries - berries of a spherical or slightly oblong shape with a retaining calyx, diameter 8-10 mm., With 3-4 seeds, each containing 1 seed. Mealy pulp. The color, depending on the species, is blood red, brownish, orange, pink, yellow or black. The taste is sweet and sour. 
This variety of barberry grows mainly in Central and Southern Europe, and these fluffy bushes can also be seen in the North Caucasus. The height of the plant, as a rule, does not exceed 1.5 m. The flowers of the shrub with red berries are yellow and white, begin to bloom in the last decade of May, in some areas at the beginning of June. Flowering duration is average - 13-20 days. Ideal for a backyard or vegetable garden. Shrub tolerates haircut well. Not picky about the choice of place: it can grow both in partial shade and in illuminated areas. Among other things, common barberry can easily endure even severe frosts. This type of barberry is good for eating. This is a small characteristic of the culture, further we will consider interesting varieties.
Common barberry has not so many varieties. The most popular ones are as follows:
It grows wild on the slopes of China and Japan. The plant reaches a height of 1.5 m. In the spring and summer seasons, the leaves of the barberry have a yellowish or bright red hue, and when autumn approaches, they are brown. The flowers of the Thunberg barberry are usually yellow with a red border around the edges. Compared with the common barberry, this variety does not bloom for long - only 8-12 days. The plant tolerates both cold and drought well, it is not demanding on the soil. The fruits have a bitter taste and therefore are not used in food. 
Rosehip (lat. Rósa) is a genus of wild plants of the Pink family. It has many cultural forms, bred under the name Rose. This is a well-known thorny shrub with red berries, which grows in abundance in gardens and park areas, in the forests and in the dachas.
The fruit is false (hypanthium), oval or ovoid-spherical, when ripe, red, orange, purple-red, with numerous nuts inside. Hypanthium coloration is due to its high content of carotenes. The fruits ripen in October.
Since ancient times, rose hips have been used in folk medicine for bleeding gums. A decoction was also prepared from rose hips to restore strength. Healing tinctures were prepared from the deciduous and root parts of the rose hips. Rosehip syrup with honey was drunk for inflammatory diseases, and ulcerations in the oral cavity. 
Common raspberry is a thorny shrub with red berries, which is characterized by branching. It has a perennial rhizome and is characterized by erect shoots that can reach two meters in height. This is a well-known culture for the garden and vegetable garden.
In the first year, the shoots are fluffy and only their lower part is covered with small and thin brown thorns. In the second year, they become strong and begin to bear fruit, after which they dry up, and new shoots grow from the rhizome and the two-year life cycle begins anew.
The plant itself not only bears tasty fruits, but also has an attractive appearance, so the photo of common raspberry is popular. On the relatively long petioles of the shrub, there are odd-pinnate, compound and alternate leaves, with an average of five to seven leaves, the upper of which are trifoliate and have stipules. The white flowers of the common raspberry are small and have five petals.
The red, ruby fruits of the culture represent a composite drupe; in crops bred by breeders, the berry may have a yellow color. The seeds are round and very small, but hard.
The culture blooms in June-July, and the fruits begin to ripen around July-August. Common raspberries bear fruit unstably over the years. The weather affects the yield: cold and rainy weather prevents the necessary pollination by insects. Reproduction of common raspberries occurs vegetatively or by seeds. 
Common cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos) is another creeping shrub with red bitter berries that you can grow in your garden.
The Latin word oxycoccos comes from the Greek words - oxys - sharp, sour and coccus - spherical, which means "sour ball", "sour berry", according to the taste of the fruit. The old specific name comes from the Latin palustris - marsh.
The first European settlers called the cranberry "Craneberry" (literally "berry-crane"), since the open flowers on the stems reminded them of the neck and head of a crane. In 17th century New England, cranberries were sometimes called "Bearberries" because people often saw bears eat them.
Common cranberry is an evergreen shrub with red berries and creeping, thin shoots up to 80 cm in length. Stems are flexible, lignified, dark brown, with ascending flowering branches and short filamentous fluffy annual branches. The leaves are alternate, leathery, shiny, dark green, glaucous below from a waxy coating and in places with small glandular hairs. Leaves 5-16 mm long, 2-6 mm wide on short petioles, oblong-ovate, sharp at the apex with whole curled edges. The flowers of the cranberry are pink-red, drooping, arranged one at a time, or more often collected in 2-4, less often 6 in umbrella-shaped inflorescences on last year's branches. Pedicels are long, the calyx has four sepals, the corolla is deeply quadripartite, 5-7 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide. Blossoms in May-June; fruits ripen in late August and September. The size of the berry grown in the swamp reaches 16 mm. 
Together with the common cranberry, another species often grows - the small-fruited cranberry (Vaccinium microcarpum). In Russia, small-fruited cranberry is considered as an independent species, however, in international botanical databases, it is often included in the synonymy of the species Vaccinium oxycoccos. All parts of this plant are smaller, the diameter of the berries is 4-6 mm.
It is very difficult to confuse the sweet and sour taste of dogwood jam: it is familiar to many from childhood. Cornelian cherry is widely popular among gardeners in our country due to its simplicity in care, easy cultivation and a variety of varieties. More than 50 kg of berries can be harvested from one luxurious dogwood garden bush
In late autumn, picking mushrooms in the forest, people saw a shrub all sprinkled with bright red berries that taste sweet. They took the bush to their garden. And for a long time after that they made fun of the shaitan, and he decided to take revenge. The next year, the dogwood gave people a generous harvest, but the sun spent all its energy to ripen it. Therefore, the winter was severe and frosty. Since then, the second name of the dogwood is shaitan-berry, and there is a sign among the people: a rich harvest of dogwood promises a harsh winter.
Cornelian cherry is a low, spreading shrub with red fruits or a tree 2-5 m high. In the garden, the dogwood usually grows as a shrub to make it easier to harvest. Shoots are easy to form, forming a regular round-pyramidal crown.
The shrub begins to bloom early: in the middle lane, dogwood blooms from March 30 to April 20. A sudden cold snap or return spring frosts are not terrible for dogwood flowers. In the cold, the flowers shrink and stay in this state until the onset of heat. Dogwood blooms for 12-15 days, at the end of which the shrub releases leaves.
Attention! When buying and planting dogwood seedlings, keep in mind that the culture is self-fertile, therefore, to get a harvest, you must have two or more shrubs planted nearby.
The shape and color of dogwood fruits depends on the variety: breeders have bred varieties with pear-shaped, oval-cylindrical, elliptical berries of red, maroon, yellow, pink or orange in color, sweet and sour in taste and with a specific aroma.
Look at the photo of shrubs with red berries, the names of which can be seen above on this page: 
Berries refresh well in the summer heat, they contain a huge amount of vitamin C, which has a strong anti-inflammatory effect, and also increases immunity. Berries are added to pies and cakes, from which soft drinks are prepared in the form of fruit drinks, compotes. Jam and jams are made from them.
Berries are a great dessert in general, but only after a good dinner. And if there is no time or opportunity to cook lunch, be sure to order delicious pizza with home delivery here: http://spb.zakazaka.ru/restaurants/pizza. you just have to try this pizza because it is really delicious cooked. Well, after saturation, you can pamper yourself with berries ...The wild berry is more aromatic and tastes brighter than the one grown in the garden. The berry variety is amazing. How many tastes, so many types of berries grow on the earth. From the familiar strawberries and raspberries to exotic mangosteen, carambola and feijoa. The beneficial properties of different berries are simply not counted. Today we will tell you about the brightest and interesting features and the characteristics of the berries. Interestingly, some berries are actually not berries at all. For instance, Strawberry- this is an overgrown receptacle, on which fruits are located on the surface (what we call seeds). Delicious, large, juicy (some of the most beloved), they are called incorrectly. In fact, the "berry" that we call strawberries is garden strawberry ... But for some reason the name “strawberry” stuck, although it is one of the types of musky strawberries, the berries of which are rather small. Interestingly, the enterprising Japanese have learned to grow apple-sized strawberries. That berry that we call strawberries, small, but very tasty, aromatic and, of course, healthy. Strawberries stimulate appetite, regulate digestion, and prevent the formation of stones in the gallbladder. The beauty of strawberries is also that many varieties bear fruit all summer and even autumn.
Why are wild berries useful? - a good diuretic, stone berry restores metabolism in the body, blueberry good for diseases of the stomach and pancreas, blueberry helps to preserve eyesight, it is also a good natural antibiotic and antioxidant. If you have to take chemical antibiotics, be sure to include in the diet cranberry, it removes from the body everything that can harm it and gently stimulates the immune system. , favorite berry of A.S. Pushkin, also called the royal berry, contains twice as much vitamin C and ten times more vitamin A than oranges. It is very useful in dietary nutrition, has anti-inflammatory, tonic effect.
Like nothing in taste feijoa contains as much iodine as seafood. Bright yellow large berry with a romantic name carambola, in cross-section acquiring the shape five pointed star, has a pleasant to the taste watery pulp. - a round berry 5–7 centimeters in size. The rind is very dense, purple or brown in color, and the white juicy flesh has a creamy taste that is considered the finest among tropical fruits. Interesting fruit cinepalum (synsepalum dulcificum) some call it a berry, some a fruit. It alters the ability of human receptors to taste food. When you eat these small red berries, you will taste everything sweet: both meat and hot sauce. Nature throws up a lot of riddles. Very small solid berry Pollia condensata has a color 10 times more intense than any bright color... It does not change from time to time, herbariums created 100 years ago present this berry as bright as recently picked. However, there is no pigment in this plant, this color is achieved due to its structure, which reflects only waves of a certain length. It is a pity that these berries are not edible.
Poisonous berry
Getting into the forest during the ripening season of berries and mushrooms, an inexperienced man in the street forgets that not all of them are edible and safe. Of 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 advised to eat only wild berries that are eaten by animals or birds, this recommendation is not correct. Some species berry fruits dangerous for humans, animals eat 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, convulsions, 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 peace, to clear the stomach. To do this, you need to drink 2-4 glasses of water with activated charcoal diluted in it (2 tablespoons per 500 ml), salt or potassium permanganate (1 tsp per 500 ml). Repeated repetition of this procedure will help induce vomiting, free the stomach from the poisonous substance. If you have a first-aid kit with you, the victim needs to take a heart remedy, as well as any laxative. If there is no first-aid kit at hand, brown bread crackers, starch or milk will help. The victim should be provided with warmth and qualified medical care should be provided as soon as possible.
To distinguish inedible fruits from ordinary ones, it is necessary to remember their type and shape. Poisonous forest berries can not only cause intoxication of varying severity, but also death. Therefore, while in the forest, in no case should you eat or touch the fruits of unfamiliar shrubs and trees with your bare hands.
Wolf berries These poisonous forest berries are also popularly called wolf berries. It is a shrub plant that grows in mixed forests. In spring it blooms with beautiful inflorescences, very similar to lilac flowers. But even the long smell of this plant can cause headaches, coughs, sneezing and runny nose. In autumn, a poisonous red berry of an elongated shape appears. It is undesirable not only to use it, but even to touch it. The bark of this plant is also poisonous, which can cause blisters and sores on the surface of the skin.
The shrub grows near water bodies, in damp ravines, 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 give off an unpleasant aroma, are dangerous. Bitter fruits are juicy, with many seeds, all the greens on the bush are also poisonous.
Bittersweet nightshade (red) 
Only unripe fruits are toxic berries of black nightshade. Fully ripe fruits can be eaten, they contain a large amount of vitamin C, the leaves are also eaten boiled. The fruits are round, black in color, the flesh is black-violet, and contains stubborn dyes. Fresh fruits give off an unpleasant aroma. Nightshade is found not only in forests, but also near water bodies, ravines, roadsides. Even jam can be made from black nightshade fruits.
It is found in dry forests, coniferous and birch, as well as in meadows, forest edges, steppe zones. This plant is small in size (up to 65 cm) with spherical blue-black or red fruits, pointed leaves and white drooping flowers. When consumed, as well as when touched, symptoms of poisoning occur with upset gastrointestinal tract, headaches, shortness of breath.
A short plant with one straight stem, on which one fruit of a round shape and black color ripens. The berry has a bitter taste and an unpleasant odor. Grows in coniferous and mixed forests, among shrubs. The fruits, leaves and rhizome of the plant are equally dangerous by poisoning, the signs of which are respiratory arrest, irritation of the intestines, and impaired cardiac activity. Leaves affect the human nervous system and can cause paralysis. Traditional medicine uses raven eye to treat boils, to lubricate various wounds, with alcohol tincture and decoction of leaves, they treat pulmonary tuberculosis.
The well-known lily of the valley flower has poisonous forest berries of red or orange color. The fruits ripen from August to September, their use causes convulsions, nausea, dizziness, cardiac dysfunction. The flowers have a pungent yet pleasant scent. 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 wetlands. Together with the most common signs of poisoning, calla marsh irritates the mucous membranes. Fresh leaves, stem, fruit, and especially the rhizome, are toxic.
Many are familiar with garden honeysuckle, but few know which berries are poisonous in forest honeysuckle. They are bright red in color, collected in a small bunch. Honeysuckle berries resemble those of red currants. The fact that some birds peck the fruits of forest honeysuckle may cause a misconception about the edibility of berries, but they are poisonous to humans. Only the blue berries of the garden honeysuckle are edible. Shrubs of forest honeysuckle are often used for decorative purposes.
Euonymus is a shrub up to two meters high. Often planted as an ornamental shrub with beautiful red fruits. Birds love berries, but their use is dangerous for humans. The fruits look like bright red flesh protruding from pink bolls with black seeds.
The plant is of medium height (up to 60 cm), with large oblong black fruits, they are also red or white. The plant is very irritating to all its parts, one touch can cause severe inflammation, accompanied by the appearance of blisters. A particularly strong reaction of a poisonous substance is manifested on the mucous membrane of the eyes and mouth. Similar to him is the red-flowered raven, 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. If intoxicated, death can occur as a result of cardiac arrest or pulmonary edema. The accumulation of oxyhemoglobin stains the mucous surfaces blue. However, fresh ripe fruits can be consumed processed.
Poisonous buckthorn berries in the forest can be found near water bodies. The black bone fruits of buckthorn ripen in late summer. The bark and buckthorn fruits are used as a remedy for constipation and for gastric lavage. Buckthorn fruits can be confused with bird cherry. Eating fresh causes severe vomiting.
Many have met the yew used in decorative hedges, but few know what poisonous yew berries are, especially in the middle, where brown seeds are hidden under the fleshy, almost harmless part. Bark, shoots, yew wood are also toxic. Coniferous extract can cause human death. The poison has a paralyzing effect, causing respiratory arrest and convulsions.
It is a perennial plant with a fleshy stem and tuberous rhizome. At the end of summer, the leaves of the plant crumble, leaving the stems with a large bunch of dense red berries. After ingestion, severe intoxication, provided that first aid is not provided, can be fatal.
Aronnik spotted
Thus, many of the poisonous plants, when used and processed correctly, can be beneficial and cure many diseases. However, in no case should you self-medicate without medical skills, as well as consume the fresh fruits of the above toxic plants inside. If, nevertheless, this happened, you need to immediately provide the victim with medical assistance. And most importantly, in order to avoid unpleasant consequences, you must not eat an unfamiliar forest berry, touch it with your hands, and let children do it.
Many shrubs with red berries, in addition to aesthetic benefits, have a lot of useful properties. Grow similar crops on summer cottage- means, provide yourself with vitamins for the year ahead.
There are also beautiful plants, the fruits of which contain toxins and are unsafe not only for health, but also for life.
It should not be taken by people with increased blood clotting, as viburnum promotes the formation of blood clots.
Cultivating plants in a summer cottage, the gardener kills two birds with one stone:
Common cotoneaster
Dammer's cotoneaster
The strawberry has trifoliate leaves, the stems reach a length of ten centimeters. The roots are up to 20 cm deep. The flowers are pollinated by insects; in the middle lane, strawberries bloom in the second half of May. Grows in forests on well-moistened soils or in lowlands.
Wild strawberry has small fruits, contains a large amount of useful microelements, is a good antioxidant and at the same time is a strong allergen.
Helps in the treatment of acute respiratory infections, helps to normalize the functioning of the stomach and intestines. The berries are used in the treatment of hypertension.
The soil for lemongrass needs a well-drained soil. Reproduction takes place using cuttings and layering.
It is difficult to grow this culture in a garden plot; it is required to prepare the soil for this, which should be swampy.
Julian
Thunberg
Gumi fruit contains a huge amount of amino acids, leaves and flowers also provide great benefits. It is especially good to make decoctions and infusions from this berry, which improves the functioning of the intestines and heart.
Of the useful elements, it is worth noting the presence of large amounts of vitamin PP, which contributes to the normal functioning of the heart muscle, provides elasticity of the vessel walls. Irga is widely used in the culinary industry as a condiment.
Irga
Not all red berries are safe.
This plant is sometimes planted as a hedge. If you use homeopathic doses, then this plant can be used for medicinal purposes.
Wolfberry
Wolf bast
There are people who have an individual intolerance to these berries.
Among the shortcomings, it can be noted:
Hawthorn is not only an aesthetically attractive plant - its berries have a healing effect, they contain a huge amount of useful microelements.
It is better to plant dogwood as a male and female pair. There are a great many varieties of dogwood, the fruits are tasty and contain many useful trace elements.
The plant blooms in the summer months. Grows well on the south side of the house, however, it is afraid of direct sunlight. It grows well at temperatures from 14 to 26 degrees. If it is very cold in the apartment, the plant will shed its leaves. If there is too much sunlight, the leaves curl. The humidity of the atmosphere must be at least 55%.
To plant a plant, a container with well-sifted soil is required, which must be well moistened. The optimum positive temperature for seed germination is a little more than twenty degrees. When shoots have appeared, they need to be dived at least twice before planting. The nightshade propagates by stem cuttings. In the container in which the planting takes place, the bottom layer should be made drainage.
This culture needs pruning and transplanting annually; it is wiser to carry out this operation in the second half of February. The transplant is done in a substrate that has good breathability. Usually the stems are cut in half.
For more information on applying and planting nightshade, see the next video.
Going into the forest for berries, do not forget that not all of them are edible. You can often find those, the use of which, at best, will cause an upset stomach, and at worst, will provoke poisoning with serious consequences. Therefore, it is necessary to have reliable information about which wild berries are edible and what they look like. The names of edible berries and their photos from brief description- to your attention on this page.
Common lingonberry(Vaccinium vitis idaea L.) belongs to the lingonberry family.
These edible berries have different names in different regions of Russia: driller (Ryazan.), boletus, cowberry, cowberry, martyr (Grodn.), lingonberry, cowberry (Malor.), brushnitsa (Belor.), cowberry (Vyatsk.), cowberry, brusen (Kostr.), lumber (Tver. ), core (Grave.).
Spreading. In Northern and Central Russia, in the Urals, in the Caucasus, in Siberia; in forests and between bushes.
Description. Evergreen branched shrub, 10-15 cm. As you can see in the photo, these edible berries have leathery, obovate leaves with curved edges, dotted with dotted pits below. Whitish or pinkish flowers at the ends of last year's branches - drooping tassels; corolla bell-shaped, 4-serrated; the calyx is 4-part, of three triangular acute lobes. 8 stamens, hairy anthers, no appendages; the column is longer than the corolla. The ovary is 4-celled. The fruit is a berry. The berries are greenish-white at first, then bright red.
These edible wild berries bloom in May and June.
Blackberry (Rubus caesius L.) belongs to the Rosaceae family.
The name of these edible berries in different Russian regions: Dereza, Dubrovka (Viteb.), Blackberry, Blackberry, Blackberry (Penz.), Zhivika (Don.), Jarberry, Chewberry (Penz.), Chewy (Grave.), Rice Berry (Belor.), Zhovinnik (Mogil. ), ozhina (Crimea.), ozhinnik, hedgehog (Malor.), azhina (Belor.), Kamanika, kamenika, kumanika, kumaniha (Velikoros.), Medvedok (Orl.), Sarabalina, chill.
Spreading. In Central and South Russia and the Caucasus; in forests and between bushes. In gardens - with black, dark red and yellow fruits.
Description. Thorny shrub 1-3 m long. Stems are ligneous, erect or hanging in an arcuate manner, angular, with straight or strong spines curved downward. Leaves are odd-pinnate, green above, gray-pubescent below, on sterile shoots with 5, on fertile ones with 3 leaves. The flowers are white or pink, clustered at the ends of the branches. The flowers are correct. The calyx is 5-partite, adherent to a flat receptacle. Petals 5; there are many stamens and pistils; the columns are filiform, lateral. Prefabricated fruits - black, shiny; drupes grow together with the convex part of the receptacle.
Blooms in summer. Honey plant.
Stone berry (Rubus saxatilis L.) belongs to the family Rosaceae.
Often these edible berries in the forest are called: stone, stone, stone, stone (Malor.), stone, stone (Arch.), stone (Penz.), bone, bone (Malor.), stone, stone, stone, stone, kozesele (Grodn.), stone raspberry ...
Spreading. In European Russia, the Caucasus, Siberia; in forests and between bushes.
Description. Perennial herb. Stems and twigs are covered with thin thorns and protruding hairs. The leaves are trifoliate long-petiolate. The flowers are white, collected in a shield at the top of the stem. The calyx is 5-separate, with spiny-pointed lanceolate lobes. Corolla 5-lobed; petals are small, linear-oblong. There are many stamens. Pistil of many carpels; the columns are threadlike. Look at the photo of these edible wild berries: the fruit consists of a small number of large red drupes.
Blueberry(Vaccinium uliginosum). Other names are dove and gonobel, drunkard, drunkard, foolish person.
Spreading. Grows in peat bogs, contributing to the formation of peat, in cold and temperate countries; comes across with us on Novaya Zemlya.
Description. A small shrub from the lingonberry family. Blueberry branches are round, leaves are obovate, falling off in winter, corollas of five-petal flowers are ovoid, white with a pink tint, anthers of stamens with two horns at the back. The berries are black with a blue bloom, green inside.
Blueberries are edible, they are used to make jam and dry.
Speaking about which berries are edible, one cannot but recall the “queen of Siberian swamps” - cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus L.), which belongs to the Rosaceae family.
Other names for cloudberries: hack, waiter, ironing (berries), ironing (Psk., Kursk.), ironing (Novg., Olon.), glyzhi (Psk.), ironing (Psk., Kursk.), ironing, ironing (Psk., Novg .), ironwork, glazovye (Novg.), kamenitsa, komanitsa, kumanitsa (Tver.), kumanikha, kumanik (Tver.), kumanichina (Novg.), yellow raspberry, bearzhanik, moklaki, mohlaki (fire), frost ( Tver.), Cloudberry, mulberry, moss currant, rokhkachi (unripe cloudberry in Arch.).
Spreading. In Central and South-Western Russia and Siberia; in peat bogs.
Description. Perennial herb, 8-15 cm. Creeping rhizome. The stem is erect, simple, with a single white flower at the apex. The leaves are rounded-reniform, five-lobed. The calyx is simple, with 5 sepals; corolla 5-lobed, heart-shaped petals. There are many stamens, together with petals attached to the edges of the convex receptacle. The pistil is one of many carpels. The fruit is a complex drupe. Unripe - red, ripe - orange-yellow. The fruits are edible and contain a large amount of vitamin C.
Blooms in May, June.
Common blueberry (Vaccinium myrtillus L.) from the lingonberry family.
Chernitsa (Belor.), Blueberry, blueberry, blackberry, blackberry (Grodn.), Blackberry (Volog., Sarat.), Blackberry (Grodn.), Dryberry (Tver.).
Spreading. In Northern and Central Russia, in Little Russia, in the Caucasus, throughout Siberia; in forests.
Description. A low shrub, 15-30 cm, with leaves falling off for the winter, has a ligneous horizontal fibrous root, from which a ligneous brown erect branched stem extends upward. The branches are green, planted. Leaves are alternate, short-stemmed, ovate, obtuse or slightly pointed, finely crenate-serrate, light green on both sides, with reticulate veins below. Flowers are bisexual, supra-pistillate, regular, small, drooping, on short pedicels, singly on young shoots in the axils of the lower leaves. The calyx is supra-pistillate, in the form of a whole-edged or 4-5-toothed annular ridge above the ovary, which is also preserved on the fetus. Corolla greenish with a pink tinge, falling off after flowering, almost spherical, with a 5- or 4-toothed edge, the teeth are bent outward. Stamens, 10 or 8, free, shorter than the corolla, with thin, curved stamen filaments emanating from the circumference of the supra-pistillate disc and 2-nested anthers, bearing 2 bristle-like appendages on the dorsum and continuing at the top
each in 2 tubes, opening at the ends with holes. Ovary inferior, 5- or 4-celled, with an axial placenta, in each nest with several ovules, covered at the top (inside the flower) with a flat supra-pistillate disc; from the middle a thread-like column, slightly protruding from the throat of the corolla, rises, ending in a simple stigma. The fruit is a spherical, pea-sized, 5- or 4-celled juicy, black with a bluish bloom berry, topped with a cup-shaped roller and a column that remains for some time, containing several small seeds. Seeds with a reddish yellow skin. The embryo is median, almost straight, with a downward facing root.
Blooms in May and June; berries ripen in July and August.
Currant (Ribes) distributed in flat European Russia, three species grow wildly, in the Caucasus - six, a greater number of them grow in Siberia, especially Eastern.
Description. A genus of plants from the gooseberry family, characterized by the following features: shrubs with alternate, simple leaves. Flowers are arranged in clusters. The flower bed is concave, fused with the ovary and passing along the edges into five usually greenish sepals. There are also five free petals. The number of stamens is the same. The ovary is single-celled, polyspermous. There are two columns. The fruit is a berry.
The most famous types of currants: black currant (Ribes nigrum) and red (Ribes rubrum), which both grow wildly in northern Europe and Siberia. The difference between them, in addition to the color of the berries, is that black currant leaves and berries are extremely fragrant from the essential oil, which is contained in special glands that cover the lower surface of the leaves especially densely.
Various syrups and liqueurs are also made from blackcurrant juice. From many other species of currant, berries are also eaten, but in small quantities, and they are collected from wild specimens.
Hawthorn (Crataegus)- a shrub from the Rosaceae family.
Spreading. Wildly found throughout Central Europe and is often bred in gardens.
Description. The leaves are always split, lobed, pinnately-incised, wedge-shaped at the base. Branches in some species have thorns. Flowers, about 1.5 cm in diameter, like all rosaceous, white, with five parts of the calyx and corolla, many stamens and two to five-celled ovary, collected in whorled inflorescences, like in rowan. The fruits are drupes, similar to mountain ash, but devoid of its aroma and taste.
Description. Shrubs are erect, curly or creeping, with opposite whole leaves, the main representatives of the honeysuckle family. More than 100 species are known in almost all areas of the Northern Hemisphere. There are fourteen wild-growing species in Russia. Quite large flowers (white, pinkish, yellowish and blue) are most often located in pairs at the corners of leaves or at the ends of branches in capitate inflorescences. An irregular tubular corolla emerges from a poorly developed calyx, divided at the end into five lobes. The irregularity of flowers built according to the fivefold plan depends on the accretion of the three front petals and their uneven development, as a result of which the corolla is two-lipped. There are five stamens and a long pistil in the corolla tube. Berry fruits sit in pairs, and often grow together with each other. The upper leaves in some species grow together, forming one common plate or wide fringe, through which the end of the branch passes.
Many species of honeysuckle are very often cultivated in gardens as beautiful ornamental shrubs, well suited for groups, alleys and arbors. Russian species bloom in early summer, that is, in late May to mid-June. In Central Russia, it is quite often found along the edges of forests and in groves.
Speaking about which wild berries are edible, do not forget that only the fruits of Lonicera edulis can be eaten, and the fruits of Lonicera xylosteum are not edible.
Sea buckthorn(Hippophae)- a genus of plants from the family of suckers.
Spreading. In the wild, it is distributed in Northern and Central Europe, in Siberia to Transbaikalia and in the Caucasus. It is cultivated in gardens and parks, mainly as an ornamental plant.
Description. Shrubs, mostly thorny, up to three to six meters high. Their leaves are alternate, narrow and long, grayish-white on the underside of the stellate scales densely covering them. Flowers appear before leaves, they are unisexual, small, inconspicuous and sit crowded at the base of young shoots, one at a time in the axil of the covering scales. Plants are dioecious. The perianth is simple, bipartite. In the male flower the receptacle is flat, in the female it is concave, tubular. There are four stamens (very rarely 3), one pistil, with an upper, unilocular, single-seeded ovary and with a bipartite stigma. False fruit (drupe), consisting of a nut, dressed with an overgrown, juicy, fleshy, smooth and shiny receptacle.
Two types are known, of which the most famous is common (buckthorn) sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides), wax, wolfberry, ivothern, growing along the seashore, along the banks of streams.
The beauty of this plant is mainly due to the linear-lanceolate leaves, the upper surface of which is green and small-dotted, and the lower, like young branches, is silvery-gray or rusty-golden from stellate scales. The flowers are inconspicuous, appear in early spring. The fruits are fleshy, orange, the size of a pea, they are used for tinctures and preserves.
Several varieties are known, female specimens are especially appreciated, since in autumn they become very beautiful from the fleshy fruits covering them. Sea buckthorn grows on sandy soil, propagates by root suckers and cuttings.
Buckthorn (Frangula).
Description. Trees or shrubs with alternate or opposite, sometimes leathery and perennial leaves. The flowers are small, mostly greenish, bisexual or mixed; the number of parts is five or four. Receptacle concave, often tubular, free three- or four-celled ovary. The fruit is a drupe, containing from two to four seeds, sometimes implicitly opening, the pericarp is fleshy or almost dry. Seeds with protein. There are 60 known species of buckthorn, distributed mainly in countries with a temperate climate.
In medicine, various varieties of buckthorn are used (brittle, American and prickly). All of these agents are used as mild laxatives, mostly in the form of an infusion or as a liquid extract.
Deserve attention economically wildly growing in our country:
Buckthorn fragile (Frangulaalnus), korushatnik, bear - a shrub up to 3-4.5 meters high, found throughout Russia on fresh, fertile soil, well tolerating shading of the canopy of tall trees and delivering light reddish wood, coal from which is used to prepare gunpowder. Propagated by seeds (shoots in a year), cuttings and root suckers.
Buckthorn laxative, prickly, zhoster, proskurina and other local names, common in Central and Southern Russia and the Caucasus, up to 15 meters high. Prefers moist soils and is especially suitable for hedges. Hard (specific gravity 0.72) wood is used for small carpentry and turning products, while the bark, as oak and for painting, is fresh in a bright yellow color, dry in brown.
Kalina.
Description. Deciduous shrub of the honeysuckle family. Leaves are opposite, simple, entire, toothed or lobed. The flowers are collected in whorled inflorescences, with a regular wheel-shaped corolla, five stamens and a three-nested ovary, two nests of which never develop, and from the third comes a drupe with one flattened seed (bone), surrounded by a cartilaginous fleshy membrane of various shapes.
Up to eighty species are known, widely distributed in the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere. Our common viburnum (Viburnum opulus) is a shrub with angular-lobed serrated leaves on stellate petioles. The flowers are white, and the outer ones in the inflorescence are mostly sterile, but their corolla is four or five times larger than the median, fertile ones. Drupe red, elliptical, flattened. Its fruits, after freezing, are edible. Flowers and bark are used traditional medicine in the form of teas, broths, infusions. The wood is hard and is sometimes used for small turning products. It grows throughout Russia, less often in the north, along the edges of forests and in open places. Garden varieties: with reddish branches and variegated leaves, dwarf, double with pinkish flowers and "snowball", in which all flowers are large, sterile, collected in globular inflorescences. Black viburnum, or gordovina, comes across wildly in the southern half of Russia, especially in the Caucasus, and more often it gets bred and runs wild. Its leaves are oval, wrinkled, soft-fluffy below, like the petioles and young branches. All flowers are small, fertile. The fruit is black, oval.
Straight young trunks with hard wood, a wide core and tightly pressed semi-cork bark are used for making shafts, sticks, and sometimes for weaving baskets and hoops. The so-called bird glue is boiled out from the bark of the roots, and the leaves are used for staining in a straw-yellow color.
Rowan (Sorbus)- a genus of woody plants of the rose family.
Spreading. There are about 100 species of mountain ash in the world, of which about a third grows on the territory of Russia.
Description. The leaves are large, pinnate, 11-23 each almost sessile, oblong, sharp-serrate, hairy in youth, then almost naked leaves. White numerous flowers are collected in corymbose inflorescences. The inflorescences emit a specific odor. The fruit is spherical or oval, bright red with small seeds. The fruits contain a lot of vitamin C.
Barberry (Berberis)- a genus of shrubs of the barberry family.
Spreading. It is found in the north of Russia to St. Petersburg, as well as in Southern and Central Europe, Crimea, the Caucasus, Persia, Eastern Siberia, North America. Some species are found in Central Asia, including in the mountains of the Trans-Ili Alatau in Kazakhstan. On page 250: Barberry
Description. Evergreen, semi-evergreen or deciduous shrubs with thin, upright, ribbed shoots. The bark is brownish or brownish gray. Leaves are collected in bunches, 4 on shortened shoots. Leaves are ovate, articulating with a short petiole, finely ciliate or entire. Flowers in racemes on short lateral branches. Corolla of 6 yellow petals, 6 stamens, 1 pistil. Fruit is a berry, ovoid or spherical, 0.8-1.2 cm long, black or red. The seeds are rolled, ribbed, brown, 4-6 mm long.
Many people are interested in whether barberry berries are edible, and how can they be used? The fruits of this plant are used in cooking, more often in dried form as a seasoning for meat, for making sauces and tinctures. Honey plant.
Bird cherry (Padus avium).
Description. A woody plant from the rose family, growing wild in shrubs, in forests, all over Russia, up to the White Sea. Branched stem reaches up to 10 m in height. Leaves alternate, oblong-elliptical, pointed, sharp-serrate, drooping stipules; at the top of the petiole, at the base of the plate, there are two glands. White (less often pinkish) fragrant flowers are collected in long drooping racemes. There are five sepals and petals, many stamens, one pistil. The fruit is a black drupe.
Suffice it to recall the beneficial properties of the fruits of this plant, and the answer to the question "are cherry berries edible" will become obvious: this is a wonderful general strengthening gift of the forest, very useful for the stomach and intestines.
Rosehip (Rubus canina).
Dog rose, wild-growing, is known under the general name "dog rose". In European Russia, there are several species of wild (“rose hips”), of which the most common are rosehip, sirbarinnik, serbolina, chiporas, dog rose, and ship.
Description. It is a shrub up to 2 m tall, growing in the forest, along the ravines and in the fields. Branches are prickly, young ones with straight subulate thorns, old ones with bent thorns located on flowering branches in pairs at the base of the petioles. The leaf consists of five to seven oval or oblong serrate on the underside of bluish leaves. The flowers are large, pink, single or collected in three (rarely four to five). Sepals are whole, exceeding the petals and converging upward with fruits. The receptacle with fruits is smooth, spherical, red.
Previously, its roots were used against rabies, hence the Latin name "canina" (dog rose). Rosehip fruits contain a large amount of vitamin C, and they are used in the form of infusion, syrup for prevention and vitamin deficiency.
