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Ribes speciosum
Beautiful bush. I hope to return to catch it in bloom. "It is a spreading shrub which can reach three meters in maximum height, its stems coated in bristles with three long spines at each stem node. The leathery leaves are shallowly divided into several lobes and are mostly hairless, the upper surfaces dark green and shiny. The inflorescence is a solitary flower or raceme of up to four flowers. The flower is a tube made up of the gland-studded scarlet sepals with the four red petals inside. The red stamens and stigmas protrude far from the mouth of the flower, measuring up to 4 centimeters long each. The fruit is a red-orange berry about a centimeter long which is covered densely in glandular bristles." - Wikipedia
Scrub at Anstine-Audubon Nature Preserve. "It is native to California and Baja California, where it grows in the scrub and chaparral of the coastal mountain ranges." - Wikipedia
Spotted on May 19, 2012
Submitted on May 20, 2012
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