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The breeding success of the black chokeberry for food production in Europe and Russia has been restricted because the genetic pool of the domesticated Russian plants is homogeneous. Breeding efforts aim to increase the content of polyphenol compounds while maintaining or increasing the fruit size. Further breeding targets are improvement of flavor.
This tree is known for its many uses. The fleshy fruit is slightly acidic in flavour and is eaten by children, monkeys, bush-babies, bats and birds. The berries are also used to sometimes make an alcoholic drink. The powdered bark is used as a fish poison. In central Africa the tree is known as a remedy for stomach ache and diarrhoea.
Amelanchier alnifolia, the saskatoon berry, Pacific serviceberry, western serviceberry, western shadbush, or western juneberry, [2] is a shrub native to North America. It is a member of the rose family , and bears an edible berry-like fruit.
The berry itself has a low sugar content [9] and a mildly sweet tang. It contains a glycoprotein molecule, with some trailing carbohydrate chains, called miraculin . [ 10 ] When the fleshy part of the fruit is eaten, this molecule binds to the tongue's taste buds , causing sour foods to taste sweet.
Amelanchier (/ æ m ə ˈ l æ n ʃ ɪər / am-ə-LAN-sheer), [1] also known as shadbush, shadwood or shadblow, serviceberry or sarvisberry (or just sarvis), juneberry, saskatoon, sugarplum, wild-plum [2] or chuckley pear, [3] is a genus of about 20 species of deciduous-leaved shrubs and small trees in the rose family ().
Is said to make tomatoes taste better, chamomile and anise are supposed to increase the essential oils in many herbs like basil Borage: Borago officinalis: Almost everything, especially beans, strawberry, [6] [18] cucurbits (cucumber, squash [6]), fruit trees, [8] tomatoes [6] and cabbage: Predatory insects, honeybees: Many pests, tomato worm [6]
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Schisandra chinensis, whose fruit is called magnolia berry [3] or five-flavor fruit (Chinese: 五味子; pinyin: wǔwèizǐ, in Korean: 오미자, romanized: omija, Japanese: ゴミシ, romanized: gomishi), [4] [1] [5] is a vine plant native to forests of Northern China, the Russian Far East and Korea. [6] Wild varieties are also found in Japan ...