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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 ...
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
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 ...
Ribes curvatum is a North American species of currant known by the common names granite gooseberry, [2] drooping gooseberry [3] and Georgia gooseberry. [3] It is native to the southeastern and south-central United States (Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama), [4] and can be found in habitats ranging from dry rocky slopes to rich woodlands.
Ribes hirtellum is a species of gooseberry commonly known as wild gooseberry [3] [4] or swamp gooseberry. [ 5 ] [ 4 ] It is native to Canada and the northern United States. [ 3 ] [ 6 ] Cultivated gooseberries are derived from this species and from Ribes uva-crispa .
Ribes lobbii (known commonly by the names gummy gooseberry, fuchsia-flowered gooseberry or pioneer gooseberry) is a shrubby, deciduous, shade-intolerant perennial dicot found on the western coast of North America. It was first described in 1876 by Asa Gray. [2]
Ribes rotundifolium is a North American species of currant known by the common names wild gooseberry [2] and Appalachian gooseberry. [3] It is native to the eastern United States, primarily the Adirondacks , from Massachusetts and the Appalachian Mountains south as far as South Carolina and Tennessee .
Ribes lasianthum is a species of currant known by the common names alpine gooseberry [5] and woolly-flowered gooseberry. It is native to California, where it can be found in the San Gabriel Mountains and the Sierra Nevada, its distribution extending just into Nevada. [6] [7] Ribes lasianthum grows in high mountain habitat, often in open areas.