Rosehip May is known by various names, including brown rosehip, dogrose, cinnamon rose. You can meet this plant at the edges of the forest, along ravines, among shrubs and even in meadows. It received the widest distribution: from Scandinavia to Central Siberia.
Rosehip May. Description
This beautiful plant belongs to the perennial shrubs of the Pink family. The plant can reach a height of 200 cm. The rosehip bush, as a rule, consists of straight brown-red stems, on which curved or straight thorns protrude. Leaflets are petiolate, complex, oval, dentate, with stipules. The flowers are large, located singly or two or three, have five pink or red petals on a short peduncle. The fruit is spherical, naked, has sepals at the top, when ripe - red. Inside it there are many small, angular seeds that are covered with hairs.
Rosehip blooms in May and June. The fruits ripen in early autumn, usually in September. It propagates by seeds, but a vegetative method is also possible. May rose hips in the second or third year. This plant belongs to centenarians. 300 years is not the limit for him. By the way, garden rosehips are grown in gardens and parks without any problems. It is unpretentious and does not require any special care.
Useful properties of the plant
Rose hips are used for medicinal purposes. They are harvested fully mature before the onset of frost.
May hips are considered useful plants. After all, it contains vitamins: C, B1, B2, P, PP, K. There are also glucose, and fructose, and sucrose, as well as organic acids, pectin substances, salts of iron, magnesium, calcium, manganese and others. Rosehip preparations are used as a choleretic, anti-inflammatory, anti-sclerotic, diuretic. They positively affect the body's resistance to the negative effects of the external environment, as well as carbohydrate metabolism. This plant will be useful in acute and chronic infections, with peptic ulcer and other gastrointestinal ailments, as well as in liver diseases, atherosclerosis, uterine and pulmonary hemorrhages. Rosehip seed oil is used externally for wound healing, with nipple cracks, with bedsores. Since the plant is very useful, infusion of fruits is made from it. Known to everyone is the Holosas syrup. It is prescribed for hepatitis and cholecystitis. In some diseases, in particular, cholelithiasis and urolithiasis, take a decoction of
rosehip roots.Rosehip May in myths and legends
Even in ancient times, there were rumors that the dog rose is able to scare away demons, evil spirits, evil and protect from black magic. People believed that pink rosehip flowers have magical powers that can once again bring passion back into a fading sensation.
There are many myths and legends associated with this prickly plant. According to one legend, a garden of wild rose hips grew around the temple of the Greek goddess of beauty Aphrodite. It was the beautiful daughter of Zeus who created the scarlet rose. The myth says that before all the roses in the world were white. But once, having heard that her beloved Adonis was torn to pieces by a fierce beast during the hunt, the beautiful Aphrodite rushed to the place of his death, making her way through the prickly rose garden. All in tears and grief, she did not even notice how sharp thorns of a wild rose hurt her. And drops of divine blood, falling on snow-white flowers, turned them into bright scarlet. And since then, pink flowers always bloom on rosehip bushes.