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The gooseberry is a straggling bush growing to 1.5 metres (5 feet) in height and width, [8] the branches being thickly set with sharp spines, standing out singly or in diverging tufts of two or three from the bases of the short spurs or lateral leaf shoots. The bell-shaped flowers are produced, singly or in pairs, from the groups of rounded ...
Green gooseberries Red berries of Ribes uva-crispa. Gooseberry (/ ˈ ɡ uː s b ɛ r i / GOOSS-berr-ee or / ˈ ɡ uː z b ɛ r i / GOOZ-berr-ee (American and northern British) or / ˈ ɡ ʊ z b ər i / GUUZ-bər-ee (southern British)) [1] is a common name for many species of Ribes (which also includes currants), as well as a large number of plants of similar appearance, and also several ...
[3] [6] Cultivated gooseberries are derived from this species and from Ribes uva-crispa. [ 3 ] [ 7 ] Ribes hirtellum is known by several other names, including American gooseberry , [ 8 ] hairy-stem gooseberry , [ 8 ] hairy gooseberry , [ 8 ] low wild gooseberry [ 4 ] northern gooseberry [ 4 ] , smooth gooseberry [ 4 ] , and wedge-leaf gooseberry .
It is a spreading shrub growing to 0.3–1.5 meters (1–5 ft) tall, [3] the branching stems covered in prickles and hairs, and bearing 1 to 5 sharp spines at intervals. [ 4 ] Borne on a petiole several centimetres in length, the lightly hairy, glandular leaves are up to 4 cm ( 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long and are divided into about five deeply cut ...
Solenopsis invicta, the fire ant, or red imported fire ant (RIFA), is a species of ant native to South America. A member of the genus Solenopsis in the subfamily Myrmicinae, it was described by Swiss entomologist Felix Santschi as a variant of S. saevissima in 1916. Its current specific name invicta was given to the ant in 1972 as a separate ...
A flea-beetle (Phenrica guerini), a leaf-mining moth (Epipagis cambogialis), and a stem-wilter, (Catorhintha schaffneri), feed on the leaves.[5]Although Pereskia aculeata is edible and of high nutrition quality, being an alternative to conventional food, this plant is a declared weed in South Africa where it does extensive damage to forest areas by smothering indigenous trees.
Gooseberries may also be used to describe tropical plants producing fruit superficially similar to Ribes fruit. This includes: Byrsonima lucida, the "Long Key" gooseberry, native to the Caribbean; Ceylon gooseberry, a species of Dovyalis, native to Sri Lanka and southern India
Ribes victoris is an uncommon North American species of currant known by the common name Victor's gooseberry.It is endemic to California, where it grows in the chaparral and woods of canyons in the San Francisco Bay Area and counties to the north, as far as Humboldt County.