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The Iroquois mash the fruit, make them into small cakes, and store them for future use. They later soak the fruit cakes in warm water and cooked them a sauce or mixed them with corn bread. They also sun dry or fire dry the raw or cooked fruit for future use and take the dried fruit with them as a hunting food. [13]
Although it is a sweeter and less pigmented variant of the redcurrant, not a separate botanical species, it is sometimes marketed with names such as R. sativum or R. silvestre, or sold as a different fruit. Currant bushes prefer partial to full sunlight and can grow in most types of soil. [11]
The characteristic leaf symptoms are a smaller number of leaf lobes and a decrease in the number of teeth on the serrated edge of the leaves. The flowers also show symptoms, with the buds being less hairy than normal and, in a severe form of the disease present in Russia and Scandinavia, the sepals appearing to be doubled in number to ten. [ 4 ]
Soon after the leaves open in the spring, the galls are yellow and turn red by the early summer. Leaves can also be crinkled, with a colony of yellow-greenish aphids living in the hairy depressions on the underside of the leaves. Cultivars of red currants are preferred. Adults are 1–2 millimetres (0.039–0.079 in) long.
Ribes (/ ˈ r aɪ b iː z /) [5] is a genus of about 200 known species of flowering plants, most of them native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. [2] The species may be known as various kinds of currants, such as redcurrants, blackcurrants, and whitecurrants, or as gooseberries, and some are cultivated for their edible fruit or as ornamental plants.
Beginning of bud burst: first green or red leaf tips just visible 09: Leaf tips extended beyond scales 1: Leaf development 10: Leaf tips above the bud scales: first leaves separating 11: First leaves unfolded (others still unfolding) 15: More leaves unfolded, not yet full size 19: First leaves fully expanded 3: Shoot development 1: 31
The flowers are produced in early spring at the same time as the leaves emerge, on dangling racemes 3–7 cm (1–3 in) long of 5–30 flowers; each flower is 5–10 millimetres (1 ⁄ 4 – 3 ⁄ 8 in) in diameter, with five red, pink, or white [6] petals. The fruit is a dark purple oval berry about 1 cm (3 ⁄ 8 in) long; it has an insipid ...
Ribes, genus of berry plants, e.g., blackcurrant, redcurrant and whitecurrant; Zante currant (US), dried black Corinth grapes; smaller than raisins (just "currant" in other English-speaking countries) Currant tomato, Solanum pimpinellifolium, small tomato species; Currant-tree, Amelanchier canadensis, also called Juneberry or shadblow serviceberry