Thank you to our friends who participated in our Plant Identification Quiz earlier in the week. Here are the names of the plants, all spotted growing in Sonoma County.
Plant 1: AMARANTH
Plant 2: FAVA BEAN
Plant 3: POMEGRANATE
Plant 4: GRAPEFRUIT
Plant 5: BLACK CURRENT
Plant 6: PINEAPPLE GUAVA
Plant 7: GRAPES
We had to include that last one — we live in wine country! We’ve got grape vines growing everywhere.
Number 5 looks like gooseberry to me. We grow red currents here and they’re much smaller fruit, think wild blueberry-sized.
Miriam: Interesting! In all fairness, they berries were actually incredibly small. The photo I took was super zoomed in.
I love your plant knowledge! Most of these were new to me before last week. :)
You say they are small, in which case I stand corrected. I guess I’ve never looked that closely at the currants when they’re under-ripe like that to see that, hey!, these look like tiny gooseberries. And this plant doesn’t seem to have thorns, which the gooseberries definitely have. Sorry for coming across as a pompous know-it-all.
Miriam: Not at all! I’m in awe of your plant sense.