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Thank you, Sue. I followed up your lead and looked up clove currant
(and gooseberries too). There is a resemblance but all the photos
I've seen show compound leaves with no mention of the silver underside
or wavy edges, also my flowers are very pale, nearly white. My plant
does have a strong sweet sort of spicy fragrance but I don't think I
would describe it as clove (too late in the year to take a sniff to
confirm:-) Thanks again!

Michael Baribeau









"Sue" wrote in message ...
one of the Ribes sp perhaps ( Currant) ??

I have Ribes odoratum ( clove scented black currant) and it is my harbinger
of spring.

Sue





"Michael Baribeau" wrote in message
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My appologies for just barging in as a first time visitor with a
question but I am stuck. I have spent hours online trying to identify
this lovely bush, its flowers with the most beautiful fragrance, but
with little success. It grows here in Michigan USA woodland
clearings, I have seen it up around 8 feet high, green leaves that are
silver underneath ovate toothless wavy edges alternating pinnate
reddish leafstalks and branches, small whitish tubular flower clusters
along the branch in Spring pointing down with a strong pleasing
fragrance, and reddish berries in fall. I have a few photos at the
link below, click on the photos to enlarge...


http://snurl.com/Flower_Shrub


Michael Baribeau