Wine contains ethanol (alcohol), which blocks various nerve pathways in the brain. It also contains chemicals that might have beneficial effects on the heart and blood circulation such as antioxidant effects, and preventing blood platelets from forming clots.
Two common types of strawberry plants are June-bearing and everbearing. Growing methods vary slightly for each. June-bearing plants generally produce one large harvest in late spring or early summer depending on air temperatures, length of daylight and time of planting; everbearers produce two to three crops over the course of the summer and into the fall, with the larger crop coming in the summer.
USDA Native Status: L48 (N), CAN (N) The large, bright, terminal blossoms of this showy, 2-4 ft. perennial are made up of small, rose-purple flowers. Deep pink flowers clustered at the top of a tall, branching stem, bearing numerous narrow, lanceolate leaves. Opposite, narrow, lance-shaped leaves line the erect, open-branched stem. Elongated, tan-brown seed pods persist into winter. The juice of this wetland milkweed is less milky than that of other species. The genus was named in honor of Aesculapius, Greek god of medicine, undoubtedly because some species have long been used to treat a variety of ailments. The Latin species name means flesh-colored.