BOTANY 099 SERIES
These caches will take you to the places where specific trees,
shrubs, vines or plants can be seen.
The given coordinates take you to an attractive flowering bush
called Golden Currant, Ribes aureum There are
actually three different bushes that grow in the clump of bushes at
these coordinates. The first to bloom in the Spring is the
Golden Currant, later (in April) a small Chokecherry
bush, Prunus Virginiana, blooms (a white raceme - a round
columnar mass), then in June the largest of the three bushes,
Blue Elderberry, Sambucus glauca , blooms and then
later one sees its berries. Please note the pictures of all
three bushes that are attached.
This "ribes" bush was at one time a bush that the U.S.
Government with CC Camps workers tried to completely eradicate in
the Northwest because the Ribes bush was the intermediate host for
an organism which caused “blister rust”, a serious threat to one
particular agricultural/forest crop.
The cache container is no longer a micro, but is now a small
camouflaged box about 1x3x4 inches. There is now room for some
small items. It is no longer in sight. Please return the cache
to exact place you found it. Thanks!.