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2 unusual facts about currant


Pancake Range

U.S. Route 6 crosses the Pancake Range at Sandy Summit north of Lunar Crater between Currant to the east and Warm Springs to the southwest of the range.

Railroad Valley

The valley has 4 separate Wildlife Management Areas ("Railroad Valley WMA"), and valley communities include Currant, Crows Nest, Green Springs, Lockes, and Nyala.


Barry Cunliffe

Cunliffe inspired the name for the character "Currant Bunliffe", an archaeologist in David Macaulay's 1979 book, Motel of the Mysteries.

Cake in a Cup

Other cupcakes presented on the show were a blood orange and currant jam cupcake symbolizing blood, a red velvet cupcake with a red fondant heart to represent the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland, and a lemon blueberry cupcake drawing from the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory character, Violet.

Extract

A majority of other, concentrated fruit flavors, such as banana, cherry, currant, peach, pineapple, raspberry and strawberry, are produced by combinations of various esters, together with special oils.

Fer

According to wine expert Oz Clarke, wine made from Fer is often characterized by its perfumed aromas of currants and red fruit, soft tannins, and concentration in fruit.

Klebsiella pneumonia

Patients with Klebsiella pneumonia tend to cough up a characteristic sputum that is said to resemble "red-currant jelly".

R. aureum

Ribes aureum, the buffalo currant, clove currant, golden currant or Missouri currant, a shrub species native to Canada, most of the United States (except the southeast) and northern Mexico

Ribes aureum

This currant species is susceptible to white pine blister rust (Cronartium ribicola), a fungus which attacks and kills pines, so it is sometimes eradicated from forested areas where the fungus is active to prevent its spread.

Ribes victoris

Ribes victoris is an uncommon species of currant known by the common name Victor's gooseberry.

Synanthedon tipuliformis

Synanthedon tipuliformis, known as the Currant Clearwing, is a moth of the family Sesiidae.

Syneta albida

It feeds on the leaves of various deciduous trees: Quince (Cydonia), plum (Prunus), pear (Pyrus) and currant (Ribes).


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