{"id":23663,"date":"2021-04-13T13:07:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T12:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/?p=23663"},"modified":"2021-09-28T12:00:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T11:00:39","slug":"identify-flowering-currant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/2021\/04\/13\/identify-flowering-currant\/","title":{"rendered":"Identify The Flowering Currant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-23663 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/2021\/04\/13\/identify-flowering-currant\/red-currant-leaf\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/red-currant-leaf-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-25966\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/red-currant-leaf-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/red-currant-leaf-scaled-450x450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/red-currant-leaf-scaled-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-25966'>\n\t\t\t\tLeaves\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/2021\/04\/13\/identify-flowering-currant\/plant-currant-flowers-on-mass\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/plant-currant-flowers-on-mass-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-25965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/plant-currant-flowers-on-mass-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/plant-currant-flowers-on-mass-scaled-450x450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/plant-currant-flowers-on-mass-scaled-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-25965'>\n\t\t\t\tClusters of flowers\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/2021\/04\/13\/identify-flowering-currant\/currant-flower_spring\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Currant-Flower_Spring-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-25964\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Currant-Flower_Spring-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Currant-Flower_Spring-scaled-450x450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Currant-Flower_Spring-scaled-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-25964'>\n\t\t\t\tFlower on stem \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h2>FLOWERING CURRANT \/ SPRING \/ SUMMER \/ EDIBLE<\/h2>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><strong>COMMON NAMES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">Flowering Currant<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><strong>BOTANICAL NAME<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; background-color: #ffffff; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: -6pt 0pt 20pt 0pt;\">Ribes sanguineum<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><strong>PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; background-color: #ffffff; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: -6pt 0pt 20pt 0pt;\">Root &#8211;\u00a0 Not of interest.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; background-color: #ffffff; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: -6pt 0pt 20pt 0pt;\">Stems\/Bark &#8211; The bark is dark brown to grey with pale brown lenticels.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; background-color: #ffffff; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: -6pt 0pt 20pt 0pt;\">Leaves &#8211; It has palmately lobed leaves that give off a sweet herbal aroma when crushed.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; background-color: #ffffff; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: -6pt 0pt 20pt 0pt;\">Flowers &#8211; The flowers are \u2018dangling\u2019 racemes that almost look like grapes before they open. When opened the flowers are pink to red with a similar smell to the leaves.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; background-color: #ffffff; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: -6pt 0pt 20pt 0pt;\">Seeds\/Fruit &#8211; The berries darken to a purple\/red colour.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><strong>SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">Kingdom &#8211; Plantae<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">Order &#8211; Saxifragales<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">Family &#8211; Grossulariaceae<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">Genus &#8211; Ribes<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><strong>KNOWN HAZARDS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">None known.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><strong>COULD BE CONFUSED WITH\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">Other members of the rubes family, for example blackcurrant but these are also edible.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><strong>RANGE AND DISTRIBUTION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; background-color: #ffffff; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: -6pt 0pt 20pt 0pt;\">A native to North America it has naturalized in the UK and can be found almost everywhere.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><strong>HABITAT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; background-color: #ffffff; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: -6pt 0pt 20pt 0pt;\">Normally found in parks and gardens, but also in hedgerows and waste ground where it has escaped.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><strong>EDIBLE USES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.98; margin-top: -6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 20pt;\">The flowers have a delicious floral flavour, they can be added to salads or desserts. They can be used to make a cordial or syrup by simply infusing them in a sugar syrup and gently heating. They are amazing infused in alcohol for example gin to make a lovely addition to your drinks cabinet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FLOWERING CURRANT \/ SPRING \/ SUMMER \/ EDIBLE COMMON NAMES Flowering Currant BOTANICAL NAME Ribes sanguineum PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS Root &#8211;\u00a0 Not of interest. Stems\/Bark &#8211; The bark is dark brown to grey with pale brown lenticels. Leaves &#8211; It has palmately lobed leaves that give off a sweet herbal aroma&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[152,204,237,104,238],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23663"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27079,"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23663\/revisions\/27079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}