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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
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 ...
Ribes lobbii is a deciduous, loosely branched shrub, about 0.5–1.5 metres (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 –5 feet) in height. [2] Its stems are spreading, finely hairy, generally having three slender nodal spines, 7–12 millimetres (1 ⁄ 4 – 1 ⁄ 2 inch) long.
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 echinellum, the Miccosukee gooseberry, [2] is a very rare North American shrub in the currant family, native to the southeastern United States. [3] It has only a few known populations. The Florida populations were discovered first, in 1924 at Lake Miccosukee .
Ribes californicum is a mostly erect shrub growing to a maximum height around 1.4 metres (4 + 1 ⁄ 2 ft). Nodes along the stem each bear three spines up to 1.5 centimetres (5 ⁄ 8 in) in length.
It has several common names, including prickly gooseberry, eastern prickly gooseberry, dogberry, and dog bramble. It grows in rich forests, rocky slopes, and open heaths from New Brunswick south along the Appalachian Mountains to northern Alabama and west as far as Manitoba , the Dakotas and Oklahoma .