Wax Currant
Easily the most beautiful of all of the native currants that grow wild in the Pacific Northwest, the waxy current is also one of the most flavorless. I actually ate one of these after the shot and there was no sweetness or taste, just texture which I thought was very strange. Apparently not so to the hummingbirds, who take advantage of these early spring bloomers to feed on the nectar of the tubular white flowers where they might be the only flowers available to them at the time.
- Copyright
- © 2014
- Image Size
- 6000x4000 / 11.6MB
- Keywords
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Angiosperms, Core eudicots, Cowiche Canyon, Cowiche Canyon Trail, Eudicots, Grossulariaceae, PNW, Pacific NW, Pacific Northwest, Plantae, Ribes, Ribes cereum, Saxifragales, Spring, Squaw currant, Washington, Yakima, Yakima County, beautiful, beauty, berries, berry, bloom, blooming, blooms, blossom, blossoms, botany, bud, cluster, color, culinary, currant, dicot, drought tolerant, edible, flora, flower, flowers, food, fresh, fruit, green, native, native plant, natural, natural landscaping, nature, ornamental, perennial, plant, plants, red, shrub, wax currant, west coast, wild, wildflower, wildflowers, wildlife gardens
- Contained in galleries
- Grossulariaceae (Currant and Gooseberry Family), Currants and Gooseberries
