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Japanese medlar

The Japanese loquat, belonging to the Rosaceae, is a small evergreen subtropical fruit and ornamental plant. It has spiny shoots, ovoid leaves with a wax coating and serrated edges and single large enough white flowers.

Medlar is a fruit, the fruits of which contain a lot of vitamins, ritenol, potassium. They grow in small bunches, have a pear-shaped form and a firm yellowish-orange skin. In each fruit there are three or five large brown seeds. In this case, the skin of the fruit is easily removed by hands during final maturation.

The Mexican loquat is an evergreen beautiful tree, reaching a height of up to six meters. It can often be found on the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus, in Tuapse, etc.

Lokva or medlar of the Japanese family, as you might guess, from Japan, where it grows over a thousand years. Subsequently, it was cultivated in China, India, Israel and Brazil, where to this day is extremely popular. There is this tree in Turkey, Libya, Syria, Armenia, Georgia, Spain, southern Italy, Portugal.

This is a fairly thermophilic plant, so in a cold climate it is grown exclusively in hotbeds. The Mexican loin is very fond of moisture, so in the summer it should be watered abundantly, while ensuring high humidity of the surrounding air.

Israeli and Italian gardeners and landscape designers use this plant a lot as a tapeworm on lawns, as well as original live barriers. In general, the Japanese loquat is thanks to its compact crown, strong branches and beautiful leaves is a real decoration of gardens and parks. In the period when it blooms, the aroma in the air from the flowers is felt from afar.

However, despite its similarity with the "tropical palm" and evergreen, the medlar of the Japanese is quite frost-hardy. Small trees can withstand up to 19 degrees of frost. And its ovaries will suffer even frosts, which is important, as this plant blooms from October to January, for which it was called "Japanese winter coat".

In the open ground medlar gives excellent harvests, sometimes three hundred pounds of fruit are removed from the bush, which contain both sugar and vitamins, as well as pectins and citric acid. They are eaten both fresh and processed: in the form of pastille, jam, compotes, syrups.

The Japanese medlar also has medicinal properties. Traditional medicine believes that it strengthens the intestines, improves the peristalsis of the stomach, promotes digestion, is an anti-inflammatory drug.

The leaves collected during flowering are brewed, and their decoction is used as a hemostatic drink, and also as an anti-inflammatory one with pain in the throat. Tinctures from immature fruit of the lobe, as well as from the seeds, are excellent in the treatment of urolithiasis.

At the same time, the bark and unripe fruits with leaves contain tannic elements in their composition, that's why they are used for tanning leather, and beautiful reddish-brown wood has made the loquat an excellent raw material for crafts.

In our country, the medlar Japanese grows so far only in the Sochi region, and there it is grown as a decorative kad culture, with fruits very similar to apricots.

The most common decorative varieties of the locks are Golden Yellow, Largue Agra, Thames Pride and Tanaka.

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