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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 ...
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 ...
Ribes (/ ˈ r aɪ b iː z /) [5] is a genus of about 200 known species of flowering plants, most of them native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. [2] The species may be known as various kinds of currants, such as redcurrants, blackcurrants, and whitecurrants, or as gooseberries, and some are cultivated for their edible fruit or as ornamental plants.
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 .
Gooseberry most often refers to cultivated plants from two species of the genus Ribes: Ribes uva-crispa native to Europe, northwestern Africa and southwestern Asia. Ribes hirtellum , American gooseberry
Ribes lacustre regenerates primarily from seed, but can also regenerate vegetatively with adventitious roots which grow when the stems remain in prolonged contact with soil. Plants begin producing seeds when three to five years old, and each mature bush produces around 50-75 berries. Seeds are dispersed by animals or by falling from the parent ...
Ribes quercetorum is a species of currant known by the common names rock gooseberry, oak gooseberry and oakwoods gooseberry. It is native to the mountains and hills of California from the San Francisco Bay Area south into Baja California and east into Arizona. [3] [4] [5] Ribes quercetorum grows in woodlands, chaparral, and dry desert slopes ...