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On a blurry grey green background, a twig, bearing several leaf clusters and a couple of flower clusters. Each flower is tiny, star shaped, and yellow-green. The stamens are fully developed which probably means this is a female plant.

#Oemleria cerasiformis, osoberry.
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Oemleria cerasiformis, osoberry. An open raceme of pendant flowers on long pedicels, with small white petals. I think these are male flowers - you can't quite make it out at this resolution but the stamens are fully developed and pollen-bearing. We're looking at the flowers from the side.

Oemleria cerasiformis, osoberry. Looking up into a group of flowers from below. I think these are female - vestigal stamens without pollen, and visible ovaries. Grey sky in the backgorund.

Ribes sanguineum, red-flowered currant. A raceme of flowers handging from a twig. At the base of the raceme, three leaves, sort of five-lobed cordate with deep creasing. The flower cluster is opening from the top down; four flowers are open and there are many more buds waiting. The sepals are pink and open wide, looking like petals, and the much smaller white petals remain in a tube-like shape sheltering the stamens & pistil.

Salix, willow. Against a completely blurred out light grey background, a twig with four flowering staminate (pollen-producing) catkins. On each catkin, the unopened pollinia are bright orange, and the open ones are bright yellow with pollen; the rest of the structure is a pale green that contrasts pleasingly with the orange. When the garden was planted ca 1984, several species of willow were included, so this volunteer tree might be a cross of two of those trees.

Photos from Strathcona Community Garden, Vancouver, BC, Canada (Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh Nations). More info in alt text.
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#Oemleria #Ribes #Salix

A late winter blooming ♀ oemleria tree.

♂ Male oemleria flowers 🌼

♀ female oemleria flowers 🌼

♂ oemleria flowering in a PNW forest. 🌼

#Oemleria, the local spring harbinger, is blooming late this year. These dioecious plants produce fruits with a refreshing cucumber/watermelon flavor & are an early pollinator nectar source.
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#osoberry #IndianPlum #pnw #nativeplants #bloomscrolling

A bright green Osoberry (Oemleria Cerasiformis) bud on a branch on a dull winter day.

Early Signs of Spring

Osoberry (Oemleria Cerasiformis) buds

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