B133 



STICKY CURRANT 



Ri'bes viscosis'simum 



I Flowe 



Flowers-greenish to dull white, often 

 tinged with pink, in 3- to 13-flowered 

 clusters (corvmbose racemes) in leaf 

 axils, individually stalked; individual 

 stalks jointed just below flower, con- 

 spicuously bracted nt the base 



Leaves alternate, stalked, somewhat 

 rounded, up to about 3 in. broad, 

 hairy and usually very glandular on 

 both sides, shallowly and palmately 

 3-lobed; lobes rounded, short and 

 broad, irregularly scallop-toothed 



Stamens 5, alternating with the 

 petals, attached to mouth of tube of 

 outer united flower parts (calyx), 

 not longer than petals; pollen sacs 

 (anthers) tipped with tiny, cuplike 

 appendages 



Petals 5, dull white, broadly egg- 

 shaped, blunt, about % as long as 

 calyx lobes, attached to mouth of 

 calyx tube 



Calyx glandular-hairy on outside, cy- 

 lindric-bell-shaped below, 5-lobed 

 above, the lobes oblong, blunt 



Twigs rather stiff ; glandular-hairy, 

 without spines or prickles 



Berry breaking off from stalk when 

 ripe, black, ellipsoid, about % in. in 

 diameter, covered with gland-tipped 

 hairs, crowned by withered flower parts 



