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Author: ribes rubrum, Linné, ribes nigrum: Linné, Family: grossulariaceae
Our red garden currant is called ribes rubrum, it seems to have been cultivated out of several
species of wild red currants. The main 'parents' probably are r. spicatum and r. petraeum, another
book also gives r. sylvestre and r. multiflorum.
The black garden currant is ribes nigrum, this seems to be the same species as the wild plant.
Currants grow all over the world in the Northern hemisphere in cool and temperate climates.
More about red currant and black currant in MGMH
Text References: Food
| VH 1, 13-14 |
A few // early-ripening varieties of low-crawling currants had begun
to turn color, and there were always a few new leaves of pigweed, mustard,
or nettles for greens. |
| VH 5, 79 |
Winter Storage
She was making a storage container, thinking about everything she had
to do to make herself secure for the cold season ahead.
The currants I picked yesterday will be dry in a few days, she estimated,
glancing at the round red berries spread out on grass mats on her front
porch. By then, more will be ripe. |
| VH 9, 143 |
It made her think of breakfast. Dried meat made into a broth, a little
fat added for richness, seasonings, maybe some grain, dried currants. |
| MH 9, 135 |
Ptarmigan
(...) Ayla looked through the storage rooms to see if there was anything
that appealed to her to stuff the ptarmigan with. (...)
With some salt, she thought, and the sunflower seeds she had seen in
a storage room, and the dried currants ... and perhaps coltsfoot and rose
hips from her medicine bag, it might make an interesting filling for the
ptarmigan. |
| PP 2, 26 |
Dominated by grasses more than five feet tall but ranging up to twelve feet in height - big bulbous bluestem, feather grasses, and tufted fescues - the colorful forb meadows added a variety of flowering and broad-leaved herbs: aster and coltsfoot; yellow, many-petaled elecampane and the big white horns of datura; groundnuts and wild carrots, turnips and cabbages; horseradish, mustard, and small onions; irises. Lilies, and buttercups; currants and strawberries; red raspberries and black. |
| PP 13, 215 |
The only woody vegetation were certain kinds of brush that could withstand both arid heat and searing cold. An occasional thin-branched tamarisk bush, with its feathery foliage and spikes of tiny pink flowers, or a buckthorn, with black round berries and sharp thorns, dotted the landscape, and even a few small, bushy, black currant shrubs could be seen. |
| PP 30, 494 |
Feast for S'Armunai
Later she planned to mix in some dry roots - wild carrots, and starchy
groundnuts - plus other pod and stem vegetables, and dried currants and
blueberries. |
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Abbreviations |
Editions |
| CB |
The Clan of the Cave Bear |
The page numbers refer to the hardcover editions by Crown Publishers, Inc, New York 1980, 1982, 1985, 1990.
Book 1-3 are the Special Collector's Edition, I don't know if the page numbers differ from those of the 'normal' hardcover editions. |
| VH |
The Valley of Horses |
| MH |
The Mammoth Hunters |
| PP |
The Plains of Passage |
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