Fruit tree

Fruit trees are trees that fruit - mainly raw edible fruit - bear.

Use

Fruit trees are usually grown as scheduled and are then found in gardens or plantations. A traditional form of fruit-growing was the orchard, later mostly called orchard, the fruit Avenue and Orchard.

The typical expansion forms of fruit trees ( Trellis, spindle bush, half & high strain) caused by a combination of plant breeding and cut the plants. The natural, ie not cultivated by natural selection, unaltered and unedited form would usually be of a lesser, but especially irregular income and non- predictable flavor and unpredictable quality of the fruit.

Typical fruit trees are the trees of the rose family ( pome fruit: cultivated apple, cultural, pear, quince, stone fruit: cherry ), Mandelbaum (also a stone fruit ), Walnut Tree, in the broader sense of the nut fruit and pistachio, sweet chestnut, some Oleaceae ( such as the olive tree ), citrus fruits, or trees ( date, which is also a nut fruit ), and tree-like representatives of many other plant families with various forms of fruit.

Most common are the now the spindle bushes, where distinguished panel varieties are grafted to slow documentation to enable a relatively low final height is not exceeded to about 3m.

Some fruit trees are on steep branches no fruit, so they are partly tied down so that they form an angle of 45 ° or less to the ground.

Diseases

Serious effects on fruit trees has recently fireblight. It leads to greater Fällaktionen, also the most ecologically valuable high-stem trees.

Ecological function

Standard fruit trees are ecologically very valuable because they offer many bird species habitat. However, they are becoming increasingly rare, as their management is not as rationally vonstattengeht (see under high strain). The project mapped stealing fruit trees in Germany in order to preserve them as part of the cultural landscape.

Care

To obtain the best possible return is a steady and careful care of trees needed. A key factor in this is the right section, which should be done regularly. Generally one can say with a cut in the summer, you can soothe the growth and with a cut in the winter you promote growth. In addition to that the winter pruning support fertility and the health of the tree. Note that the wound healing is taking place so that the actuators of the tree must not be weakened. This complicates the cut in the winter due to the temperatures of course. Therefore: Do not use in an ambient temperature below 5 degrees to prune the trees.

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