HIPPOPHAE RHAMNOIDES

AVAILABLE IN 2012
The SeaBuckthorn (Hippophae Rhamnoides) is a small tree with slender, willow-shaped leaves and sharp thorns that grows from Greece and Eastern Europe eastwards to Russia, Siberia and Central Asia.  Its branches are heavily clustered with soft, juicy bright orange berries that mature in August and September.
The Sea Buckthorn berry is so rich in vitamins and minerals that many speculate that it must have been cultivated by an ancient plant breeder to be the ultimate tonic and superfood.  Its botanical genus name, Hippophae, literally means, "shiny horse", because the ancient Greeks fed it to their prize racehorses to keep them sleek and healthy.  Legend has it that this Hippophae berry was also the preferred food of Pegasus, the flying horse, by which he became airborne.
The Sea Buckthorn berry is featured in the classical medical texts and herbals of Dioscorides and Theophrastus, and even figures prominently in Tibetan Medicine.

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