Page 65 - Book of Abstracts

5 International Scientific Online Conference DOI: https://doi.org/10.15414/2021.9788055224015

th

ROBINIA PSEUDOACACIA L. AS AN INTRODUCED PLANT INTO NATALIYIVSKYI PARK AND
ITS APPLICATIONS
2
1
Alla Hryhorenko , Inna Koval
1 State Ecology Academy of Postgraduate Education and Management, Kyiv, Ukraine;
E-mail.: alla_gr@ukr.net
2 M.M. Gryshko National Botanical Garden of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
Kyiv, Ukraine

The introduction of woody plants has a long history. Thanks to it, the enrichment of
floristic resources took place. Moreover, the introduction has both positive and negative
consequences.
Robinia pseudoacacia L. as an intoroducent, a melliferous plant with medicinal properties,
that naturalized on the territory of the Nataliyivskyi park, a monument of gardening art of
national importance (the village of Volodymyrivka, Krasnokutsk district of Kharkiv oblast).
An analytical review of literary sources on the generalization of data on introduction,
economically valuable qualities of the plant, and its use in various industries is carried out. The
composition of the species and cultivars of the park was established by the method of route
surveys. Plant names are based on WFO (2021).
Robinia pseudoacacia is a representative of the genus Robinia L. of the Fabaceae Juss
family. It is a North American kenophyte, ergasiophyte with a high adaptive potential to
unfavorable abiotic, biotic, and anthropogenic factors.
The natural habitat of the genus Robinia is various ecotopes of the Appalachian and Rocky
Mountains. Thanks to the French botanist Jean Robin, Robinia pseudoacacia came from North
America to the Paris gardens in 1601 and spread rapidly throughout Europe.
R. pseudoacacia in Ukraine first appeared in 1780 in the garden of A.K. Razumovsky. On
the territory of the Left-Bank forest-steppe of Ukraine, it appeared thanks to I.N. Karazin, who,
traveling in the USA and Canada, in 1809, brought it to the Osnovyansky Acclimatization
Garden. And from there this plant got into the neighboring park-estate of I.G. Kharitonenko –
Nataliyivka, which was created in 1884.
Due to its high drought resistance and soil-strengthening ability, R. pseudoacacia was
widely used in steppe afforestation. Beekeepers have noticed the high melliferous qualities of
this plant. R. pseudoacacia honey is almost colorless, transparent, with a floral aroma, high
fructose (up to 45 %), glucose (36 %), slowly crystallizes. According to French scientists, the
use of R. pseudoacacia honey is quite useful for people suffering from cardiovascular diseases
and colds. Scientists have studied the various parts of R. pseudoacacia for medicinal properties.
Today, the official raw material is flowers, which contain an essential oil (0.08–0.12 %) used in
cosmetology and aromatherapy. Decoctions and infusions of flowers have antipyretic and
antispasmodic effects. One of the most abundant R. pseudoacacia flavonoids is robinin, which
has hypoazotemia activity and is used to make flaronin.
Thus, Robinia pseudoacacia is a very interesting plant as a honey plant for beekeepers and
also as a medicinal plant for the pharmaceutical industry. At the same time, thanks to
monitoring studies by biologists, this species is one of the most common invasive species in the
world. What we observed in the territory of Nataliyivskyi Park, where there were changes in
landscapes and tree plantations, where the self-seeding Robinia pseudoacacia captures
disturbed areas of the landscape. Therefore, the use of this species in plantations needs control.

Keywords: Robinia pseudoacacia, introduction, Nataliyivskyi Park, flavonoids.

th
5 International Scientific Conference Agrobiodiversity for Improving the Nutrition, Health, Quality of Life and |64
Spiritual Human Development
November 3 2021
rd