Ribes cereum - Wikipedia
Ribes cereum is a species of currant known by the common names wax currant [3] and squaw currant; [4] the pedicellare variety is known as whisky currant. The species is native to western North America.
Ribes cereum (Wax Currant) - Gardenia
Ribes cereum (Wax Currant) is a compact, mound-forming, deciduous shrub with numerous smooth-barked branches clad with small, somewhat rounded, 3-5 lobed leaves. The light-green foliage is studded with resin glands and turns shades of yellow in the fall.
Wax Currant l Extremely Adaptable Shrub - Our Breathing Planet
The awesome Wax Currant evolved as endemic to a rather wide swathe of the western portion of North America. This quite extensive range roughly begins in British Columbia, in Canada , and extends through the states of Washington, Oregon, and California, in the United States .
Rocky Mountain Edible Plant Identification: Wild Wax Currant …
2014年8月10日 · Wax Currants produce edible berries between late July and early September. Their berries have a mild, lightly sweet flavor and can be eaten straight from the bush, cooked, or made into pies and jellies due to their high pectin content.
Wax Currant – Ribes cereum - Gardening Know How
Wax Currant is a spreading to erect shrub with branching stems. It may grow 7 inches to 4 feet in height. The plant produces numerous branches. Each stem is slightly fuzzy, glandular, thornless and green maturing to gray. Leaves are 1 inch long and up to 2 inches wide.
Ribes Cereum, Wax Currant - American Southwest
The common name of ribes cereum, wax currant, refers to the leaves, which have a covering of short, glandular hairs, secreting a waxy oil. The glands may be stalked or sessile. Leaves are shallowly lobed, lined with coarse, rounded teeth, on stalks about equal in length to the blade.
Ribes cereum Douglas - Calflora
Wax currant. Ribes cereum is a shrub that is native to California, and also found elsewhere in western North America. Plant Range. Observation Search ~1862 records in California Plant Characteristics. D J J J A S O N A F M M. Bloom Period Photos on …
Wax currant | Chelan-Douglas Land Trust
Wax currant is a compact but erect, many-branched, fragrant shrub that grows about four feet tall. The waxy, gray-green leaves are fan-shaped, generally in three to five less-defined lobes with gently scalloped edges.
Wax Currant - Calscape
Ribes cereum is a species of currant known by the common names wax currant (R. c. var. pedicellare is known as whisky currant). It is native to western North America, including British Columbia, Alberta, and much of the western United States, from Washington, Oregon, and California east as far as the western Dakotas and the Oklahoma Panhandle.
Wax Currant - Ribes cereum - montana.plant-life.org
The fruit of wax currant is edible raw or cooked, but it doesn't taste good and large quantities can cause nausea. Reports on the quality of the fruit range from insipid and rubbery to highly esteemed as an article of diet. The fruit can also be used to make pemmican, jellies, jams, sauces and pies. Fruits can also be dried for later use.