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Red-Flowering Currant (Ep. 16) - Botany with Brit

👩‍🌾 ~ Enjoy? Like, share, and subscribe to our channel! ~ 👚 Get your own red-flowering currant shirt ➡️ https://botanywithbrit.square.site 🌱Learn more fun plant facts ----- https://botanywithbrit.com The striking flowers of red-flowering currant emerge at the same time as the leaves in spring, which are 5-lobed, somewhat similar to maple leaves but with blunted tips. The green leaves are veined and finely hairy on the undersides. These leaves provide forage for more than 2 dozen species of moth and butterfly larvae, and deer and elk will occasionally browse them as well. Clusters of small plum-like fruit begin as a peach color and ripen to bluish-black. Small mammals, foxes, coyotes, deer, and bear consume the plums and disperse the seeds in their scat. The fruits are edible but bitter with large pits, and Native Peoples would eat them in small quantities, perhaps casually picking a handful while walking through the woods. The fruit was eaten fresh or dried, but was treated more as a starvation food than as a staple. An exception to this is the Kwakiutl, who would eat them fresh with oil at feasts. Coating food in oil is a pretty reliable way to make just about anything taste delicious. In August and September the berries ripen to a bluish-black with a waxy bloom - they are also covered in fine hairs. I must admit a hairy berry is not my favorite kind of berry, but they are edible and were consumed raw or stewed and dried into cakes for winter food by indigenous peoples. They have a tart taste and “are considered suitable by some for jam, jelly, and pie.” The use of the word “considered” in that field guide excerpt gives me pause, but I would think the amount of sugar added to these concoctions would make nearly any berry palatable. Even a hairy berry. For more fun facts about red-flowering currant and other favorite plants visit: https://www.botanywithbrit.com Follow and connect with us!   / botanywithbrit     / botanywithbrit