#symphoricarpos

[margocooper]

Призрачно белые плоды Снежноягодника (лат. Symphoricárpos) на фоне опашей, пожухлой листвы. Ноябрь 25. Ghostly white fruits of the Snowberry (Latin: Symphoricárpos) against a background of dug-out, withered foliage. November 25.

[uxbridge]

Partridge berry and coralberry from the other day 🍒

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Monday 7 October 2024

In this garden a full bathtub of rainwater provides a great reflection of the shed door and is overhung by Symphoricarpos albus (common snowberry, waxberry). This upright, deciduous shrub had oval leaves and distinctive round white fruit. It spreads by suckering roots, so has the potential to become invasive if not contained and maintained.

Jill Raggett

[the-poisongarden]

Snowberry (Symphoricarpos) is a christmas botanical that truly embodies the spirit of winter with its bright white berries. This genus of cold hardy and drought resistant shrubs is related to the honeysuckle family and native to North and Central America (with one species in China). Today it can be found as an ornamental shrub in plant nurseries and gardens across the world and is well loved in floristry —especially for the winter holidays and winter weddings.

The white berries are poisonous to humans if consumed in excess due to their saponin content so the plant was mainly used by indigenous peoples for medicine, as hair shampoo, and to poison water to stun fish and make them easier to catch. The fresh berries were rubbed on rashes, burns, and sores. The bark, root, and leaves were used externally to treat wounds snd as an eye wash as well as internally for fever and menstrual issues. It was treated as a disinfectant and was used as a wound wash, to remove external parasites, and the burned wood was used to cauterize wounds.

In modern medicine we’ve found the berries contain the alkaloid chelidonine normally found in poppies. It is an antidote to poisoning from anticholinergic herbs like belladonna, brugmansia, datura, and mandrake. Pretty cool! Other anticholinergic antidotes include snowdrops and narcissus.

In indigenous folk magic snowberry is considered very protective with the power to banish ghosts and evil spirits and counteract curses and spells. It can be worn or carried for protection and used in magic to encourage truthfulness. Many Native American tribes used it to protect babies and young children from ghosts —either as a charm by their cradles or the wood itself used to make the cradle. It was also used to protect children when ill, especially for fevers.

Sources: Native American Ethnobotany Database, PFAF, Wikipedia, and ethnobotanist Nancy J. Turner.

[kitaston]

Mullberry (Symphoricarpos)

ph. Magda Indigo

[ifelten]

Honningbi (Apis mellifera)

Fouragerer på almindelig snebær (Symphoricarpos albus).

Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)

Foraging on Snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus).

[kristo-flowers]

Snowberries

[fantafumino]

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