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Gooseberry Patch is an American company that publishes cookbooks. It was founded in 1984 by Vickie Hutchins and Jo Ann Martin, who were neighbors in Delaware, Ohio , as a mail-order recipe catalog "selling old-fashioned, country-style products."
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 divaricatum is a shrub sometimes reaching 3 metres (10 feet) in height with woody branches with one to three thick brown spines at leaf nodes. The leaves are borne on petioles, up to 6 centimetres (2 + 1 ⁄ 4 inches) long [citation needed] and 2.5–6.5 cm (1– 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) wide. [14]
In general, this plant is a shrub growing 0.5 to 2 metres (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 to 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 ft) in height. [3] The ssp. hendersonii is sometimes smaller at maturity. The branches are covered in prickles and there are spines up to 1.3 centimetres (1 ⁄ 2 in) long at stem nodes. [4]
Ribes montigenum is a North American species of currant known by the common names mountain gooseberry, alpine prickly currant, western prickly gooseberry, and gooseberry currant. Description [ edit ]
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 leptanthum is a spiny-stemmed, small-leaved species of gooseberry in the genus Ribes commonly called trumpet gooseberry. [3] It is native to Arizona , Colorado , New Mexico , Texas , and Utah , [ 4 ] where it is usually found in high-altitude canyons .