150 HANDBOOK 148, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Fast growing shoots, with 

 2/5 arrangement of buds 

 and twigs 



Branches with spurlike twigs 



— . . F-486453, 486450, 486451 



vjolden currant 



second -year twigs; highly susceptible to 

 white pine blister rust, blamed for many of 

 first long-range rust introductions into 

 Inland Empire areas ; shrubs to 6 feet high ; 

 mts., e. Oreg., e. Wash.; type locality, w. 

 base, Rockv Mts., lat. 48-52°. 

 western black currant (Ribes petiolare). 



