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Clusters of bright red currant fruits hang from the branches of a shrub with green leaves.

Clusters of shiny black currant fruits hanging from a leafy branch of a Ribes shrub.

Currant (Ribes)

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Chef tossing vegetables in a frying pan over a burner (skillet, food).

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Venus's-flytrap. Venus's-flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) one of the best known of the meat-eating plants. Carnivorous plant, Venus flytrap, Venus fly trap

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