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  1. Alexander KOSTYUKOV, Moscow Region

    When I was resting in the south, I heard two passers-by arguing about the name of a pretty tree, which grew next to someone's summer residence. One said that this is a laurel, since the leaves of it are very similar to laurels.

    The second claimed that it was a fruit tree. Then the owner of the dacha came out and said that both were wrong - this was laurel cherry.
    The second time I heard about a strange tree, when friends brought me a small pot in a pot. It was laurels. I had to learn more about the plant.
    It turned out that there are many varieties of laurel cherries. Only in the south they are evergreen trees, and in the cooler regions these are deciduous plants. They can not withstand temperatures below -25 °. So I did not dare to land laurel cherry on the plot, but transplanted it into a more spacious pot and left it in the winter garden.
    Since the plant is poisonous, I grow a bush as a decorative culture.
    And my tree fructifies, but I do not risk eating berries, although I heard that they are edible in a mature form. In general, very useful in this plant are the leaves-they are used in folk medicine for problems with the lungs and the heart.

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