Ribes hudsonianum Ribes hudsonianum Ribes hudsonianum is a North American species of currant, known by the common name northern black currant. "Ribes hudsonianum" grows in moist wooded areas, such as mountain streambanks and in swamp thickets. They are upright to erect shrubs growing one half to 2 meters (20-80 inches) tall. They are aromatic, with a strong scent generally considered unpleasant. Stems are covered in shiny, yellow resin glands that lack spines or prickles. Leaves are up to 10 centimeters long, divided into three, or rarely five, sharp-toothed lobes, having long hairs on the undersides, studded with yellow glands. Inflorescences are erect,
Epicoccum nigrum (a of 0.99 to 0.97), growth is optimized at water vapour saturation. "Epicoccum nigrum" produces a variety of biomedically and industrially useful metabolites, including important antifungal agents and pigments, including: flavipin, epicorazines A and B, epirodin, epicocconone, and a variety of carotenoid pigments. "Epicoccum nigrum" has also been utilized in the biosynthetic manufacture of silver- and gold nanoparticles. A highly robust and ubiquitous fungus, "E. nigrum" has an almost global spread, occurring in the Americas, Asia, and Europe. Spores of "E. nigrum" have been cultured from a variety of environments, predominantly soil (i.e. peat, forest floor, raw humus, compost, tundra,