78+ Ribes Sanguineum White Icicle

Superb as a hedge or specimen. Ribes sanguineum white icicle commonly known as american currant flowering currant.

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Ribes sanguineum white icicle!!!

Synonyms ribes sanguineum white icicle family grossulariaceae genus ribes can be deciduous or evergreen shrubs sometimes spiny with simple usually palmately lobed leaves and small tubular or bell shaped solitary or racemose flowers borne in spring or summer followed by juicy sometimes edible berries. Fruit blue black with whitish bloom. Leaves alternate simple foliage pale green. This white flowering form of the native northwest currant was first developed in victoria on vancouver island.

White icicle opens its pendulous pure white blooms in mid march and some years a little earlier continuing to bloom until late april. Ribes sanguineum white icicle sku 9113 profusely adorned by hanging clusters of white flowers in early spring followed by blue black berries in summer. Summer berries are blackish blue with a waxy powder coating. Blooms about 2 weeks earlier than most wild forms drooping clusters 10 13 cm long pure white flowers.

The scientific name ribes sanguineum means bitter tasting bloody one though for flavor it s more bland than bitter the white icicle s blooms aren t blood colored like the wild original. Aromatic leaves are lobed fuzzy and deep green. Ribes white icicle a welcome sight in the early spring garden. Ribes the common flowering currant is welcome to the positions which they enjoy in our woodland area.

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