Ribes rubrum   Red Currant

 

 

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This is a flower easily missed. It flowers very early and the pendulous, small, green florets merge with the hedge and surrounding leaves. I only found this bird-sown shrub through noticing the red currants later in the season and making a note to rerun for the flowers this year.

Hedge in Cheshire lane, 2nd april 2005

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Added on 4th April 2005