How many improbable legends are accompanied by an almond tree. This small bush subdued mankind the beauty during blossoming, unpretentiousness in growth and nutrition value of fruits.
The extensive scope of a fruit of an almond tree is caused by its rich chemical composition. Many got used to take almonds for nut, but it not so. Almonds – stone fruit which on the nutritious properties it is capable to replace meat or bread. Not without reason the leading nutritionists at problems with weight recommend to replace an evening diet with only one kernel of almonds.
Wide and most ancient circulation of an almond tree in warm corners of the earth generated a set of beautiful legends and legends of origin of its name.
The mankind uses curative almond oil, almond milk in cookery and cosmetology for a long time.
Beauty Amigdala
Beautiful tree – what can be more precisely in the description of an almond tree? Just the same value has Syrian "al-mugdala". And, apparently, from it there was Latin, formed from the Greek "amigdalos", a name of a plant. There is a remarkable legend of the great Phoenician goddess Amigdala. The similarity of the Latin name of Amygdalus almonds with her name has something in common with gentle-pink blossoming of a fine tree. As if the great goddess, smiling to a charming and gentle smile, comes a flush on the white beautiful face. Beauty of spring blossoming represent with youth, beauty and happiness.
The first or earlier
Almond tree before all fruit-trees to begin the blossoming. Jewish names of a tree – "щакед" comes from the verb "shakad" that means "to be awake", i.e. "not to sleep". Almonds do not doze – slightly spring, and it already all in color. Not without reason the almond tree is called a harbinger of spring.
Billiard pockets
As billiard pockets ("curved") almonds are mentioned in the Bible, the same word meant also to - the Jewish name of the city of Bethel. Almonds in many cultures are considered a family tree: as well as the person it badly lives in loneliness and perfectly grows in an environment of 5-7 other bushes.
Almonds are fantastically useful, its fruits are widely applicable in cosmetology and medicine, broths have the anesthetizing and toning property, and serve in the Chinese and Indian cuisine the main of a number of national dishes.
Fellida and Demofont
One more beautiful history originates in Ancient Greece. The almond tree is considered sacred and is called "Fellida's tree". Fellida exhausted with melancholy for Demofont without having sustained separation from darling, addresses in the dried-up almond tree. It blossoms only when beloved Demofont's hand touches it.