Rogów, Arboretum SGGW

Native to Michigan and Connecticut south to Texas and Florida. Ornamental plant. Edible plant - fruits raw or cooked, a thin dry flesh with a sweet taste. Herbal plant - the bark of the root and stems is abortifacient, anodyne, antispasmodic, astringent, nervine and sedative; a tea is used internally in the treatment of painful or heavy menstruation, prolapse of the uterus, morning sickness, to prevent miscarriage and to relieve spasms after childbirth, it is also used to treat convulsive disorders, colic and other cramping pains that affect the bile ducts, hysteria, asthma and palpitations of a nervous origin. Useful plant - plants can be grown as a hedge, they can be sheared to make a formal screen.