Blue black berry. What berries grow in the forest? Edible and poisonous berries in the forest

years grow on trees, bushes, in a swamp, on low bushes.

From berries you can make compote, jelly, fruit drink, pie, jelly.

GAME "WHAT? WHAT? WHAT?"
Cherry jelly, what kind? — Cherry.
Raspberry pie? - Raspberry.
Currant juice? - Currant.
Strawberry compote? - Strawberry.
Cranberry juice? — Cranberry.

GAME "WHAT JAM".
Raspberry - raspberry jam
Blueberry - blueberry jam
Strawberries - strawberry jam
Cranberry - cranberry jam
Lingonberry - lingonberry jam, etc.

SAY WHICH BERRY:
What is lingonberry? Red, sour, small.
What is raspberry? Pink, large, sweet, juicy.
What blueberry? Blue, sweet, small.

COMPLETE OFFERS WITH PREPOSITIONS:
Rowan berries grow... on a tree.
Gooseberries are falling... bush.
Strawberries were plucked ... twigs.
Blackberries laid out ... baskets.
Blueberry bushes were looking for... grass.
Currant berries peeked out ... leaves.

SAY THE BACK:
Strawberries are large, and raspberries ...
Gooseberries are hard, and blueberries ...
Blackberries are sweet, and currants...
Mountain ash is bitter, and strawberries ...

PICK AS MANY WORDS AND ACTIONS AS POSSIBLE:
Berries on branches (what do they do?) grow, ripen, ripen, ripen, pour juice.
Berries from twigs...
People in the berry forest...
Juice from berries...
In a glass of juice...
Jam, (jam, jam) from apples ...
Berries in the basket...

COMPLETE THE SENTENCES USING "TO" AND "BECAUSE":
Mom bought a bucket of cherries to...
Mom sorted currants to ...
Mom bought Sasha strawberries because...
Mom dried rose hips ...
Vova didn't eat gooseberries...
Raspberries rubbed with sugar...

COMPLETE DESCRIPTIVE STORIES ABOUT BERRIES:
Name.
Where does it grow?
Appearance.
What does it taste like?
What is prepared from it?

WHERE THE BERRY GROWS.

Sour cranberries grow in the swamp. You can collect it in the spring, when the snow melts. Whoever has not seen how cranberries grow can walk on it and not see it. Blueberries are growing - you see them: next to a leaf of a berry. And there are so many of them that the place turns blue. Blueberry grows in a bush. Bone is also found in remote places - a red berry with a brush, a sour berry. The only berry we have - cranberries - is invisible from above.

QUESTIONS:
How do cranberries grow?
What other berries grow in the forest?
How do they grow?
Which berry is invisible from above?

REPRESENTATION.

COLLECTION OF BERRIES.

I take berries from the branches
And I collect in a basket.
Berries - a full basket!
I'll try a little.
I'll eat a little more -
It will be easier to get home.
And eat more raspberries.
How many berries are in the basket?
One, two, three, four, five…
I will collect again

MYSTERIES ABOUT BERRIES.

Small as a mouse
Red as blood
Delicious like honey. (Cherry)

In haymaking - bitter,
And in the cold - sweet,
What is a berry? (Kalina)

Two sisters are green in summer
By autumn, one turns red, the other turns black. (Red and black currants)

Autumn has come to our garden
Lit the red torch
Here thrushes, starlings scurry about,
And, noisily, they peck at him. (Rowan)

Hanging red beads
They look at us from the bushes
Love these beads
Children, birds and bears. (Raspberry)

Low, but prickly
Sweet and smelly
If you pick berries, you will peel off your whole hand. (Gooseberry)

Longleg boasts -
Am I not a beauty
And she herself is a bone
Yes, a red shirt. (Cherry)

Himself scarlet, sugar,
Kaftan green, velvet (Watermelon)

Striped balls came to us from melons. (Watermelon)

Small as a mouse
Red as blood
Tasty like honey. (Cherry)

I am a drop of summer on a thin leg,
Weave boxes and baskets for me.
Whoever loves me is glad to bow.
And the name was given to me by my native land. (Strawberry)

On the bake, the stumps have many thin stems,
Each thin stalk holds a scarlet light,
We rake the stalks, we collect the lights. (Strawberry)

Both red and sour
She grew up in a swamp. (Cranberry)

This article describes edible fruits and berries that grow in the Siberian taiga.

Firstly, this is the well-known strawberry, which is called the "queen of berries" for its unique taste and aroma.

Distributed everywhere. You will meet her in any clearing, in deciduous and mixed forests.. She is absent only in pure coniferous forests. Collect it in June-July.

In general, while in the taiga, stay close to the water - several types of berries always grow near any stream.

For example:
(comes in black and red)

It grows along the banks of streams, rivers, in any damp wetlands. It is also found far from water, but practically without berries. Bushes up to a meter high. Collection time July-August-September.

It grows mainly in damp shady places, usually spreads like a carpet on the ground, but it can also grow in separate bushes (up to 10-15 cm) both in deciduous and coniferous forests. A characteristic feature is the presence of 1 to 6 berries on one stalk.
Collection time July-September.

princess

Delicious berry with a very bright subtle aroma. It looks like a raspberry, it is easy to distinguish by smell and by the size of the bush (the princess bush is no more than 10-15 cm tall)
We collect it in August-September.

Blueberry

Short (up to 30-40cm) perennial shrub, prefers damp coniferous forest and open marshland.
Berries from greenish-blue to dark blue (depending on maturity). It is very similar to blueberries, which, by the way, you can also find here.
Collection time July-September.

Evergreen perennial small creeping shrub. A frequent companion of blueberries, it almost always grows next to it. It can be found in coniferous forest on uplands and rocky slopes, but usually without berries. Very similar to cranberries. Berries, depending on maturity, from white to maroon

Collection time July-August-September.
Lingonberries and blueberries(Lake Baikal)

Vitamin treasure. Prefers a sunny deciduous forest, but if you look you can find it everywhere.
Harvest time: flowers May-June,
fruits July-August

In dense thickets of shrubs, in the undergrowth of a coniferous forest, you can often find wild forest raspberries.

Less often, on the banks of rivers in the forests of Transbaikalia, you can find such a berry as sea buckthorn.

Its name comes from the fact that the branches of this tree (up to 6 meters high) are densely covered with fragrant spicy berries in autumn, the color from light yellow to red-orange. Very rich in vitamins, especially vitamins A and C.

Harvest time August-September.

And, in conclusion, a couple of lines about another gift of nature - the fruits of Cedar Pine, which is mistakenly called simply cedar.

Pine nuts are a valuable food product, they can be eaten both raw and after heat treatment (can be fried like sunflower seeds), they are a rich source of iodine. If you find a cedar forest in the taiga, then you definitely won’t die of hunger) Pine nut protein is high in lysine, methionine and tryptophan - the most deficient essential amino acids, usually limiting biological value proteins.
Cedar is very common in Western Siberia, in Eastern Siberia and in the Urals.

Maturation of cones occurs within 12-15 months. Collected usually in August-September.

These are small fleshy or juicy fruits that are harvested 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). In order not to be confused, fruits are distinguished from berries mainly by size. Mankind has been using berries for almost its entire life: even under the primitive communal system, gathering helped to survive. These fruits are valued even now: for their taste, low calorie content and rich vitamin and mineral composition.

Watermelon

Watermelon - annual herbaceous plant, from the gourd family. Blooms in the first half of summer, large, yellow, unisexual flowers. Watermelon fruits ripen in August-September. They can be spherical, oval, flattened or cylindrical, depending on the variety. The color of the watermelon bark is from white and yellow to dark green with a pattern in the form of a grid, stripes, spots. The flesh is pink, red, crimson, less often - white and yellow. Watermelon tastes sweet, juicy and tender.

Barberry

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

Cowberry

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

Elder

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

Grape

Grapes - a genus of plants of the Grape family, as well as the fruits of such plants, in their mature form, which are sweet berries. Globular or egg-shaped grapes, collected in more or less loose (rarely dense) clusters. The color of the berries varies greatly depending on the variety (yellow, greenish, dark blue, purple, black, etc. In total, more than 3,000 grape varieties grow in Russia and the CIS countries.

goji berries

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, the goji berry has been used in Chinese medicine to increase libido in women and men, as well as to elevate mood and improve well-being in stressful situations. It is believed that given plant contributes to the fight against cancer cells, enhances immunity and prolongs life.

Blueberry

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 - blue with a bluish bloom, juicy edible berries up to 1.2 cm long.
Sometimes blueberries are called a drunkard or gonobobel because they supposedly intoxicate and drive pain to the head. But in fact, the culprit of these phenomena is wild rosemary, often growing next to blueberries.
Blueberries are harvested for consumption in their raw and processed form. They are used to make jam and are also used to make wine.

Cherry

Tree or shrub, usually with several trunks 1.5-2.5 m high, rarely up to 3 m and above.
The 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 fluff. Depending on the region, they ripen from late June to late July, and on the same tree almost simultaneously; cherry bears fruit abundantly, usually in the third year and up to 15-20 years annually.

Melon

A plant of the Cucurbitaceae 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, does not tolerate high humidity air. On one plant, depending on the variety and place of cultivation, from two to eight fruits can be formed, weighing from 1.5 to 10 kg. Melon fruits are spherical or cylindrical, green, yellow, brown or white in color, usually with green stripes. The ripening period of melon is from two to six months.

Blackberry

A perennial subshrub of the genus Rubus, belonging to the Rosaceae family. The blackberry is widespread in the northern and temperate latitudes of the Eurasian continent, in coniferous and mixed forests, in the floodplain, 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.

strawberries

Strawberry is a perennial herbaceous plant 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, softly pubescent. Rooting shoots develop from the axils of the basal leaves. Blooms from May to July. The flowers are white, arranged on long stalks. The strawberry fruit is false, incorrectly called a berry. It is an overgrown fleshy, fragrant, bright red receptacle. Strawberries ripen in July - September.

Irga

amazing plant, Rosaceae family. It is undemanding to growing conditions, is able to normally tolerate frosts down to -40 -50 degrees, and during flowering frosts down to -5 -7 degrees. Irga grows well on soils of various composition and acidity. But there is an indispensable condition - if you want to get a crop of large, sweet berries with the aroma of freshness, you need to take a sunny place for the irga. Therefore, shadberry bushes should be located at a distance of at least 2.5-3 m, unless you aim to grow a high hedge, for which the irga is very suitable.

viburnum

lat. Viburnum
Red berry with a fairly large seed. Viburnum ripens in late September after the first frost. Prior to this, the berry is quite sour with bitterness, and under the influence of slight frosts it acquires sweetness. Widely used in folk medicine.

Dogwood

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

Strawberry

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

Cranberry

Represents evergreen, shrub with thin and low shoots. The length of the shoots is on average about 30 cm, 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 continues throughout autumn. Plantation berries ripen 1-2 weeks earlier than wild ones. Cranberries can easily be stored until spring.

Red currant

Red currant is a small deciduous perennial shrub of the Gooseberry family (Grossulariaceae). Unlike blackcurrant, the bushes are more compressed and elongated upwards. Strong and thick annual shoots, growing from the base of the bush, go to its formation and replacement of old, dying branches, but over the years their progressive growth fades.

Gooseberry

Perennial, multi-stemmed shrub with a long fruiting period and high yield- up to 20-25 kg from 1 bush. Gooseberry bushes reach up to 1.5 m in height and up to 2 m in diameter. Gooseberry - a plant of temperate latitudes, tolerates slight shading, but is quite moisture-loving. root system gooseberry is located at a depth of up to 40 cm. It is best to place it along the fence at a distance of 1-1.5 m from the bush. Over time, they grow, forming a solid prickly wall.

Lemongrass

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

Raspberry

Raspberry is a deciduous shrub with a perennial rhizome from which biennial aboveground stems up to one and a half meters high. The rhizome is sinuous, woody, with multiple adventitious roots forming a powerful branched system. Stems erect. The leaves are oval, dark green above, whitish below, pubescent with small hairs. The flowers are white, about 1 cm across, collected in small racemose inflorescences, located on the tops of the stems or in the axils of the leaves. Raspberry fruits are small hairy drupes fused on the receptacle into a complex fruit. The fruits are usually red, but there are varieties of yellow and even black raspberries.

Cloudberry

A small perennial herbaceous plant with a creeping branched rhizome. The stem is simple, erect. 10-15 cm tall, ends with a single white flower. The leaves are wrinkled heart-shaped, with a lobed margin. The cloudberry fruit is a combined drupe, reddish at first, and amber-yellow when ripe. Cloudberry blooms in May-Nun, ripens in July, August. Fruit - acid-spicy, wine.

Sea ​​buckthorn

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

Olives

evergreen subtropical tall tree genus Olive (Olea) family Olive (Oleaceae).
The height of an adult olive tree is usually five to six meters, but sometimes it reaches 10 to 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 are renewed gradually over two to three years. Fragrant flowers are very small from 2 to 4 centimeters long, whitish, in one inflorescence from 10 to 40 flowers. The fruit is an elongated oval-shaped olive with a length of 0.7 to 4 centimeters and a diameter of 1 to 2 centimeters, with a pointed or blunt nose, fleshy, inside the olives contain a stone.

Rowan

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

Turn

Tern is a shrub or small tree 1.5-3 (large species up to 4-8) meters high with numerous prickly branches. The branches grow horizontally and end with a sharp thick spike. Young branches are pubescent.
The leaves of the turn are elliptical or obovate. Young leaves are pubescent, with age they become dark green, with a matte sheen, leathery. Blackthorn fruits are mostly rounded, small (10-15 mm in diameter), black-blue in color with a wax coating.

feijoa

Novolat. Feijoa
A green oblong berry native to South America. In size, feijoa is 5-7 cm in diameter and weighs approximately 20-120 g. When ripe, the fruit becomes very juicy with a slight sourness. A new plant was discovered at the end of the 19th century. in Brazil during a scientific expedition. In Europe, the fruit first appeared in 1890 in France. From there, feijoa spread to the Mediterranean countries, the Crimea and the Caucasus. The tree is very thermophilic and can withstand maximum frosts down to -10°C.

Physalis

Common physalis (vesicle, dog cherry, marunka) is a perennial plant from the nightshade family 50-100 cm high. Underground shoots of physalis are creeping, woody, branching. Its stems are erect. angularly curved. The fruit of the physalis 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 Greek word“physo”, which means swollen. The plant blooms in May - August. Physalis fruits ripen in June - September. It grows everywhere in light forests, among shrubs, on the edges, in ravines.

Cherries

woody plant reaching 10 meters in height from the Rosaceae family, a close relative

poisonous berry

Getting into the forest during the ripening season of berries and mushrooms, an inexperienced layman forgets that not all of them are edible and safe. From all the variety berry plants it is necessary to distinguish between those of them 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 have been eaten by animals or birds, this recommendation is not correct. Some species berry fruits, dangerous to humans, animals eat without any consequences for themselves, so this is not an indicator of their harmlessness. Classification and photos of poisonous berries are presented below.

The main signs of intoxication, which cause poisonous berries, are: convulsions, convulsions, palpitations, difficulty breathing, irritation of the digestive tract, depression of consciousness, dizziness. If such symptoms appear, the first thing to do is to ensure that the victim is calm, to clear the stomach. To do this, you need to drink 2-4 glasses of water with diluted in it activated carbon(2 tbsp 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 toxic substance. If you have a first aid kit with you, the victim needs to take a heart remedy, as well as any laxative. If there is no first-aid kit at hand, black bread crackers, starch or milk will help. The victim should be provided with warmth and qualified assistance should be provided as soon as possible. medical care.

Poisonous berries: photos and names

To distinguish inedible fruits from ordinary ones, it is necessary to remember their appearance and shape. Poisonous wild berries can not only cause intoxication of varying severity, but also fatal outcome. Therefore, being in the forest, in no case should you eat or touch with bare hands fruits of unfamiliar shrubs, as well as trees.

1. Wolf's bast

These poisonous wild berries are also popularly called wolf berries. This is shrub plant growing 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 headache, cough, sneezing and runny nose. A poisonous red berry appears in autumn elongated shape. 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 ulcers on the surface of the skin.

1. Nightshade bittersweet

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

Toxic black nightshade berries are only unripe fruits. Fully ripe fruits can be eaten, they contain a large number of vitamin C, the leaves are also eaten boiled. The fruits are round, black in color, the flesh is black-violet in color, contain dyes that are difficult to remove. Fresh fruits emit an unpleasant odor. Nightshade is found not only in forests, but also near reservoirs, ravines, roadsides. From the fruits of black nightshade, you can even cook jam.

It occurs in dry forests, coniferous and birch, as well as in meadows, edges, steppe zones. This plant small 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 disorder gastrointestinal tract, headaches, shortness of breath.

A low plant with one straight stem, on which one fruit ripens round shape and black. The berry has a bitter taste and bad smell. Grows in coniferous and mixed forests, among shrubs. The fruits, leaves and rhizome of the plant are equally dangerous for poisoning, the signs of which are respiratory arrest, intestinal irritation, and impaired cardiac activity. The leaves act on nervous system person can cause paralysis. ethnoscience uses raven eye for the treatment of boils, for lubricating various wounds, alcohol tincture and a decoction of the leaves treat pulmonary tuberculosis.

Everyone famous flower lily of the valley has poisonous forest berries of red or orange color. The fruits ripen from August to September, their use causes convulsions, nausea, dizziness, impaired cardiac activity. The flowers have a strong but pleasant scent. Medicine uses May lily of the valley for the treatment of 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, the marsh calla causes irritation of the mucous membranes. Fresh leaves, stem, fruit, and especially the rhizome are toxic.

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

Euonymus is a shrub up to two meters high. Often planted as ornamental shrub with beautiful red fruits. Berries are loved by birds, but for humans, their use is dangerous. The fruits look like bright red pulp peeking out of pink boxes with black seeds.

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

The plant is common 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. With intoxication, death can occur as a result of cardiac arrest or pulmonary edema. Accumulation of oxyhemoglobin stains mucosal surfaces in blue color. However, fresh ripe fruits can be consumed processed.

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

Many have seen yew used in ornamental 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.

1. Aronnik spotted

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

Aronnik spotted

Thus, many of poisonous plants at correct use and processing can benefit, serve medicine from many diseases. However, in no case should you self-medicate without medical skills, as well as ingest the fresh fruits of the above. toxic plants. If this does happen, you should immediately provide medical assistance to the victim. And most importantly, in order to avoid unpleasant consequences, you can not use an unfamiliar wild berry, touch it with your hands, and allow children to do this.

Wild berries are in many ways different from domesticated berries, bred artificially. Of course, their most important difference is in the vitamin warehouse. None garden berry cannot boast of such a rich vitamin warehouse as even the smallest wild forest berry. But, not all "sweets" of forest edges and clearings are edible and harmless to people. Many berries are not only inedible, but even deadly for human body. So, let's try to figure out which wild flattering berries are edible and healthy for humans, and which are poisonous and harmful.

Inedible wild berries are dangerous to health

Nature is insidious and dangerous, and this applies, first of all, to some forest berries OK. In the world of berries, as well as in the world of mushrooms, the brightest and most attractive, in appearance, berries are the most dangerous and poisonous.

The list of berries dangerous to humans includes:

• fruits" hemlock speckled",
• "Raven Eye"
• "Nightshade bittersweet",
• berries of the tree "Arum",
• "Wild grapes ",
• mistletoe berries,
• privet berries,
• dope berries common,
• euonymus berries,
• castor beans,
• wolfberry ,
• black nightshade berries,
• "Voronets red-fruited",
• "Snowberry white".

This is not the entire list of poisonous berries that you may encounter in the forest, but, nevertheless, the most dangerous ones are named. But even among this list of especially dangerous forest berries, there are those that are the most harmful to the human body, one might even say deadly.

"Whitehead speckled"- outwardly, these berries are small ovoid, as if slightly flattened from the sides. These berries are distinguished by their burning bad taste, when ingested, their burning-bitter taste practically burns the mouth and lips. Only 3-5 berries of this species can be fatal.

"raven eye"- the seemingly juicy blue-black berries of this species directly attract the eye. But these berries are deadly, it is enough for a person to eat only 5 pieces in order to get complete and irreversible paralysis of the whole body.

"Palena bittersweet"- bright red shiny berries, small in size, juicy and fleshy, have an oval slightly elongated shape. They taste sweet and fragrant in smell, nothing portends trouble, but, alas, just a handful of these berries can cause a terrible rash, strong skin irritation, especially difficult cases an allergic reaction can even lead to a painful death.

Edible wild berries

nature is better and smarter than people, and therefore creating poisonous berries, she awarded the birds with the ability to distinguish them from edible berries. If you meet an unfamiliar berry in the forest, look closely at the fruits and the land around the bush or tree. If you see that these berries are to the taste of the birds (bite marks will tell you about this, bird droppings or peel from berries, obviously eaten away by someone), which means they are also suitable for people to eat.

Edible flattering berries include:

• bird cherry,
• cowberry ,
• blackberry,
• blueberry ,
• barberry,
• mulberry (both black and white),
• black elderberry,
• blueberry ,
• cloudberry,
• juniper,
• osseous,
• dogwood,
• sea ​​​​buckthorn ,
• cranberry ,
• turn,
• princess.