2014
SK9205 : Budding Ribes sanguineum (Flowering Currant)
taken 10 years ago, near to Edith Weston, Rutland, England
Budding Ribes sanguineum (Flowering Currant)
Ribes sanguineum, more commonly known as flowering currant or flowering red currant is a deciduous shrub growing to 2 m (7 ft) tall and broad. The bark is dark brownish-grey with prominent paler brown lenticels. The leaves are 2–7 cm long and broad, palmately lobed with five lobes; when young in spring, they have a strong resinous scent. The flowers are produced in early spring at the same time as the leaves emerge, on racemes 3–7 cm long of 5–30 flowers; each flower is 5–10 mm diameter, with five red or pink petals. The fruit is a dark purple oval berry 1 cm long, edible but with an insipid taste.
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