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8. Leaves shiny and gummy or whitish-waxy on upper 

 surface, in % arrangement on twig, often indistinctly 

 lobed, with musky or rather heavily fragrant odor when 

 crushed; leaf margins doubly scallop-toothed; flowers 

 tubular, greenish-white to pinkish, very short-stalked, 

 few (1-9) in each drooping eluster; flower-stalk bracts 

 green, usually lobed or toothed, longer than flower 

 stalks; currants bright red (sometimes orange); bark 

 smooth, light grayish; much-branched shrubs, to 6 feet 

 high; common in dry woods or on rocky hillsides, 

 e. Oreg., e. Wash.; type locality, upper Columbia River 

 in Wash wax currant (Ribes cereum). 



Wax currant 



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