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https://doi.org/10.15414/2019.9788055220703

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RESOURCE POTENTIAL OF SAMBUCUS NIGRA L. IN CHERNIHIV POLISSYA (UKRAINE)

Oleksandr Lukash

T. Shevchenko National University 'Chernihiv Collegium', Chernihiv, Ukraine;
E-mail.: lukash2011@ukr.net
Sambucus nigra L. has a wide range of uses. Fruits of the species are used for making
confitures, jellies, juice and also for the extraction of dyestuffs. The flowers are also used in
the preparation of drinks and medicines. Dried fruits, flowers and cortex of this bush have
been used as diaphoretic and diuretic medicines. The medicinal properties of Sambucus nigra
and its toxicity have been known since antiquity, and have also been used as a source of
natural pesticides. The products of Sambucus nigra (sambucol) are natural remedies with
antiviral properties, especially against different strains of influenza virus.
The aim of the study was to determine the Sambucus nigra habitats that can be the
potential for the collection of the raw material of the plant in Chernihiv Polissya. The field
study during 2010–2018 was carried out by the geobotanical methods. 28 phytosociological
relieves were made.
Sambucus nigra occurs in the whole of Europe (with the exception of the northern parts
of the continent) and also in Africa and Southwest Asia. The approximate latitudinal limits of
its native range are 34 to 63 °N. The natural habitats of Sambucus nigra in the territory of
Ukraine occupy the Forest-Steppe, Zakarpattia, and Prykarpattia. This species grows rarely in
natural phytocenoses of Polissya and the Carpathians. In Chernihiv Polissya it grows as a
casual apophyte. Its distribution has a somewhat invasive character. It colonizes man-made
leafy forests and many habitats of the species have an anthropogenic origin. The fast-growing
shrub grows mainly on black earth, grey forest, pratal and peaty soils near the
accommodation and stock-raising complexes. Sambucus nigra forms the communities in the
areas of 200–600 m . The largest phytocenoses with prevailing of the shrub were formed near
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the abandoned houses, farmsteads and stock-raising buildings that had not been used for
decades. Under such circumstances, Sambucus nigra (with the projective cover of 30–60 %)
formed the shrub layer of the ruderal phytocenoses. Urtica dioica L. formed the herb layer
(the projective cover is up to 25–40 %). The species with the projective covering of 2–3 % are
Artemisia vulgaris L., Elytrigia repens (L.) Nevski, Leonurus quinquelobatus Gilib. ex P.Usteri,
Anthriscus sylvestris (L.) Hoffm., Geum urbanum L., Chelidonium majus L., Gleochoma hederacea
L. Other ruderal species are well represented in the communities too. The effects of Sambucus
nigra invasion have been quantified. The communities of Sambucus nigra were found in 21
settlements on the territory of Chernihiv Polissya (the Horodnia, Ripky, Chernihiv, Kozelets
districts of the Chernihiv region). The general area of the communities is about 10 ha. For
example, the productivity of one bush in the Burivka village (the Horodnia district) makes
200–300 g of dry flowers and 15–20 kg of fruits.
Thus, the ruderal phytocenoses dominated by Sambucus nigra in Chernihiv Polissya are
the resource potential for the flowers and fruits of this fast-growing shrub laying in. In
addition, the organization of laying in of Sambucus nigra raw material in the abandoned
farmsteads will allow solving a number of social problems of the rural communities.

Keywords: Sambucus nigra L., resource, Chernihiv Polissya, vegetation.

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