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Actaea pachypoda, the white baneberry or doll's-eyes, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Actaea, of the family Ranunculaceae. The plant is native to eastern North America, in eastern Canada, and the Midwestern and Eastern United States. It prefers clay to coarse loamy upland soils, and is found in hardwood and mixed forest stands.
White currant berries are 84% water, 14% carbohydrates, 1% protein, and contain negligible fat (table). In a 100 gram (3.5 oz) reference amount, white currant berries supply 56 calories , and are a rich source (46% of the Daily Value , DV) of vitamin C , with no other micronutrients in appreciable amounts (table).
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.
Actaea pachypoda, a species of flowering plant known as white-berry snakeroot, or simply whiteberry White blackberry , a white blackberry variant Whiteberry (music group) , a Japanese pop rock group
The berries are 1.6–1.7 cm long by 0.8 cm wide and go from white to a bright pinkish-red as the plant matures. [4] [17] Because plants flower over about two months, many different stages of berry color can be seen at the same time. [17] Another notable cultivar is the 'Wilhyp' or 'Golden Beacon' variety.
Morus alba, known as white mulberry, common mulberry and silkworm mulberry, [2] is a fast-growing, small to medium-sized mulberry tree which grows to 10–20 m (33–66 ft) tall. It is native to China and India and is widely cultivated and naturalized elsewhere.
The flowers are borne in corymb-like groups 8–20 mm (0.31–0.79 in) in diameter, with three or four glabrous, egg-shaped sepals about 1 mm (0.039 in) long and white petals 2–5 mm (0.079–0.197 in) long . Flowering mainly occurs from October to February and the fruit is an edible, white, oval to spherical drupe about 5 mm (0.20 in) long.
Other common names include prairie berry, silverleaf nettle, white horsenettle or silver nightshade. In South Africa it is known as silver-leaf bitter-apple or satansbos ("Satan's bush" in Afrikaans). More ambiguous names include "bull-nettle", "horsenettle" and the Spanish "trompillo". [2] Solanum elaeagnifolium was described by A. J. Cavanilles.