In the family of pink, which includes all the Cylniks, there are many species of this plant with excellent decorative properties and practical benefits. These include the caticker ordinary, according to its external characteristics resembling a brilliant caticker.

Cysticker ordinary: general species characteristic

The corger's corner in the natural habitat grows in the mountainous terrain of the Baltic States, the European part of Russia, in the North Caucasus. It is listed in the Red Book and is considered to be a protected plant. Therefore, it is based on cultural forms with the same characteristics that the natural instance.

It is perfectly adapted to complex natural conditions and poor soils. It can be found in areas where shale and lime rocks come out, on sandstones and sloping stony slopes. He loves light and open space, which is enough in the mountains, where other plants are doing with difficulty.

Cultural decorative plant Cyclist ordinary is known since the middle of the XVII century. This is a straightforward very branching shrub. It usually reaches a height of 2 meters and has a wide rounded crown, which is easy to form molding during artificial landscaping.

Unlike the Kizilnik, a brilliant ordinary grows slowly, forming a slight annual increase. For 15 years of cultivation, it can achieve one-meter meter and meter width.

In the youth, shoots have woolly downs, which disappears when weighing, and the branch becomes smooth. They are painted in light brown color with time passing into a more dark tint.

From spring to autumn, the shrub is covered with wide egg-shaped leaves in size much larger than their relatives. In length, they can be up to 5 cm, in a width of 3-4 cm. On the shoot, they are held with a thin petiole and are placed outlined.

Young foliage is painted in a light green color, over time, passing into a more damp rich shade. In the autumn it becomes multicolored: orange, red, purple. At this time of the year, the corner of ordinary is especially attractive.

The top of the sheet is absolutely smooth and smooth, has a pleasant glossy shine. Bottom coating soft, felt. On it clearly felt large and small streaks.

Cysticker ordinary is a leafy shrub, and with the onset of colds of its branch begins. But they can maintain red fruits that contribute to the preservation of the decorativeness of the plant.

Fruits are formed on the site of the fallen colors, which completely cover the shrub in June. Then from the buds that have formed in the sneakers of the leaves, five-point flowers are blooming. They are pretty small, no more than 3 cm in diameter, painted in white with light painting color.

Flowers may not be discharged for 3-4 weeks. During this period, they are especially attractive for insect pollinators who contribute to the formation of uncess. Sharco-like berries tightly slaughter shoots, tightly holding them down with thin stiffs. Usually they are located 2-4 pieces in the brush.

The decorativeness of the shrub is achieved due to the painting of the fruit. At the time of ripening, they look like corals, as they become bright red and shiny. They are so tightly located to each other that the branch seems not green, but purple. The bending of painted thus shoots the original outlines, and the plant looks even more beautiful.

The active fruction of the Kizilnik of the ordinary begins with the age of 3 years. Then every season on it is formed a large number of fruits that are held for a long time on branches and do not appear even in winter. At this time they become a good feed for birds.

Cysticker ordinary: use in landscaping and treatment

This type of cylovens can be used in decorative and therapeutic purposes as an effective prophylactic folk remedy.

1. Landscape designers create alive hedge out of it, placing in a dense group located on one line. Since the plant has a strong branched rod root system, they are placed by trench in deep artificial rs. Of course, in such structures, the Kiznicker brilliant looks better, but the ordinary is perfectly coping with the task of the fencing of the site from the unnecessary guests.

In the fall, the living fence changes the color and becomes a bright scenery for the plot. He is able to profitably emphasize the stone masonry of the walls and the colors of the garden tracks. Just like the Kiznicker brilliant, it is used to form borders suitable along artificial overpasses.

This culture looks good in a single landing. In this case, the bustle is better to give a certain form. It responds well on trimming and haircut. Slow growth of shoots allows you to do it just once a season.

The ability of this culture to grow on stony soils allows it to use it when creating the landscapes of the eastern, more often Japanese style. At the same time, it fits well into a composition consisting of large gray cobblestones, coniferous rocks and bright deciduous trees.

1. Another important function of the Kizilnika ordinary is to apply it in folk medicine. Despite the fact that its berries are rarely eaten, they have a pronounced therapeutic effect.

With the help of decoctions and infusions prepared on the basis of this raw material, they treat acute and chronic gastritis and other gastrointestinal diseases. Kilnikovy drugs are well helped with neurasthenia, stress and nerve disorders. They treat hepatitis, diseases of the liver and gallbladder. Drinks from the berries of the Cylnika ordinary help in the prevention of epilepsy in adults and children.

For medicinal purposes, not only fruits are used, but also a young bark, green shoots, leaves and flowers of the plant.

Cysticker ordinary - a plant that has decorative and therapeutic benefits. Therefore, in the garden, he must take a worthy place among other cultures.