Elaeagnus umbellata

Coral Elaeagnus ( Elaeagnus umbellata )

The coral Elaeagnus ( Elaeagnus umbellata Thunb. ), Also Doldige Ölweide, Autumn Elaeagnus, Elaeagnus Screen, is a species of the genus of oil willow ( Elaeagnus ) within the family of oil willow family ( Elaeagnaceae ).

Description

The coral Elaeagnus is a hardy and robust, deciduous to 4 m tall shrub with thorny branches often. The leaves are silvery scaly upper side, lower side silvery braunschuppig. The yellowish- white, fragrant flowers appear in May / June. The dark red-brown stone fruits are edible, juicy, sweet and sour, they ripen in late September to November and adhere to the branches.

Dissemination

The coral - Ölweide came to Europe from Asia and is cultivated in Germany as a pioneer plant or ornamental and Nutzgehölz. You can meet the plant in gardens and parks, and along roadsides.

Ecology

Much like legumes ( legumes) and other oil pasture plants the coral Ölweide is able with the aid of living in symbiosis bacteria ( Frankia alni ) atmospheric nitrogen in nodules like structures to bind to the root, convert and make the plants available. Analogous to the mycorrhiza is called this form of symbiosis Aktinorrhiza. The plant grows well on poor soils, is resistant to heat, drought and wind, and thus suitable as a pioneer plant for attachment of embankments and dunes.

Propagation

Mature seeds are sown in the fall. Propagation by cuttings, both half-ripe as woody, can take place by late summer to late autumn, but it requires some patience, as the rooting until after a few months and you have to expect for the planting with 2 to 3 years.

System

In addition to the nominate form, the variety ( biology) find varieties

  • Elaeagnus umbellata var rotundifolia
  • Elaeagnus umbellata var parvifolia

Use

The fruits of the cultivar ' Serinus ' contain 20 mg/100 g of vitamin C, to 12 % of total sugars, 1.5 % fruit acid. The juicy, sweet and sour stone fruits can be made ​​into jam, jelly or compote, mixed with other fruits, processed. Ripe fruits are tasty as Naschobst for fresh consumption. The fruits can also be fermented into alcoholic beverages. The shrub does not require large on the ground, and is suitable in the garden together with other wild fruit bushes as planting hedges or solitaire.

Varieties are ' Serinus ' and ' Turdus ', the latter was read out in Berlin and since 1992 has been in the commercial

Swell

  • Andreas Bärtels: Encyclopedia of garden trees and shrubs. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, p 262
  • Federal Office of Plant Varieties: Descriptive list of varieties 1999, ISSN 1430-9378, pp. 54-58
  • Jeanne Dericks -Tan, Gabriele Vollbrecht: On the trail of wild fruits in Europe, Abadi Verlag, Alzenau 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-021129-4, p 200

Evidence:

  • Rose Family
  • Wild Fruit
Rosids Rosales Carl Peter Thunberg
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