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Ribes cereum

Wax Currant and Squaw Currant.

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Ribes cereum, Wax Currant, growing in the Yellow Pine Forest, at Big Bear, California.  - grid24_24
Ribes cereum, Wax Currant, growing in the Yellow Pine Forest, at Big Bear, California.  - grid24_24
Ribes cereum Wax Currant - grid24_24
Ribes cereum Wax Currant or Squaw Currant - grid24_24
 Ribes cereum, Wax Currant or Squaw Currant berries. - grid24_24
Ribes cereum Wax Currant and Squaw Currant. play movie
Ribes cereum, Wax Currant. up in the East Sierras. play movie
syn. R. cereum var. pedicellare, R.c. var. farinosum, R. c. var. viridescens, Ribes inebrians, R. reniforme, R. balsamifera, , R. spaethianum, R. pumilium, R. churchii.
Wax currant or Squaw currant is a Ribes by many a name that makes a mounding shrub in the mountains. Drop a log next to it and you have your cabin landscaping. In the Sierras or Southern California mountains Squaw Currant makes an excellent choice for a groundcover in a bird garden. Currants are not tasty but are edible.

Ribes cereum tolerates deer.
Ribes cereum is great for a bird garden and a butterfly garden.
Foliage of Ribes cereum has color green, is deciduous, has fragrance and is edible.
Flower of Ribes cereum has color pink, has a fragrance and is edible.
Fruit of Ribes cereum has fragrance and is edible.

Communities for Ribes cereum:Alpine Fell-Fields, Red Fir Forest, Lodgepole Forest, Mountain Meadow, Northern Juniper Woodland, Pinyon-Juniper Woodland, Sub-Alpine Forest and Yellow Pine Forest.

ph: 5.00 to 7.50
usda: 5 to 8
height[m]: 1.00 to 1.50
width[m]: 1.00 to 2.00
rainfall[cm]: 50.00 to 100.00

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