Loch narrow-leaved and silvery

Loch narrow-leafed is a shrub with which almost all people living in Russia are familiar. But few know its real name, as well as its significance for industry and economy. In everyday life this deciduous tree is often called "olives" because of its peculiar fruits, really reminiscent of the fruits of the olive tree.

Shrub

The plant reaches seven to ten meters in height. The leaves have a characteristic appearance, because of which it is easy to recognize - they are elongated, silvery, covered with characteristic scales (they cover both fruits and young shoots). A native plant from Asia, but over the last hundred years has become popular in Russia and Ukraine. It is everywhere to be found in plantings, forest belts, gardens and parks. Shrubs are widely used for landscaping, they plant roads and railways. Blossom leopard blossoms in June. Yellowish fruits with a reddish tint, having an elliptical Are edible. They contain tannins and organic acids. It is because of them that the tree is so useful. Fruits can be eaten not only as a treat, they are valuable as a folk remedy for the disorder of the intestines (from them they cook jelly and porridge). On an industrial scale, alcohol is obtained from them. In Central Asia and the Caucasus, knitting properties of the fruit of the loch are used, preparing from it the "Pshatin" remedy, drying them and grinding them into flour. Wood bush is used to produce furniture as a material for turning and carpentry. Also, the trunks secrete gum, it is used to make paints in textile production. The narrow-leaved lichen has on the roots nodules, in which nitrogen compounds are formed that fertilize the soil. This plant is also useful as a source of essential oil (it is extracted from flowers) and as a honey plant. Loew flowers are used in folk medicine for edema, heart diseases , colitis, as an anthelminthic agent. Leaves are used to heal wounds, relieve rheumatic pain, with gout.

Shrub silver fuck

This is a low tree with pointed leaves and dark shoots. Its flowering lasts longer than that of the closest relative, the narrow-leafed goose, from May to July. This species comes from North America. In natural conditions it grows in marshy areas, along river banks. Fruits use it in exactly the same way as in the previous species. They mature in August or in September, taste slightly sweet. Silvery silver loch grows slowly, fruit begins often only ten years after planting. It is an excellent honey-bearer, like almost all species from the genus Lochovy. This flowering shrub is unpretentious, without problems grows in the penumbra, the fertility of the soil has practically no value for it, as does its humidity. Easily tolerates severe winters and decorative pruning. Loch silvery reproduces by radical growth or by division of a bush. It is good in mixed plantings, looks great along with red-leaved plants and conifers.