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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.
This list of Ribes species shows many of the approximately 200 accepted species in the plant genus Ribes, the single genus in the Saxifragales family Grossulariaceae. [1] Traditionally, these have been divided into a number of subgenera , such as subgenus Ribes (currants) and subgenus Grossularia (gooseberries).
The species is a host to white pine blister rust, which led to eradication efforts in the early to mid-20th century. [3] From the 1920s the genus Ribes was federally restricted within the United States until the ban was lifted in 1966 due to increased resistance among both Ribes and Western white pine populations. [20]
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; Hybrids between Ribes hirtellum and Ribes uva-crispa, including most of the modern gooseberry cultivars
Ribes americanum is a North American species of flowering plant in the gooseberry family known as wild black currant, [1] [3] [4] [5] American black currant, [6] and eastern black currant. [7] It is widespread in much of Canada (from Alberta to Nova Scotia ) and the northern United States (from New England to Washington , with additional ...
Ribes aureum, known by the common names golden currant, [3] clove currant, pruterberry and buffalo currant, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Ribes native to North America. [ 4 ] Description
The shrub Ribes lacustre is known by the common names prickly currant, bristly black currant, [3] black swamp gooseberry, and black gooseberry. [4] It is widely distributed in North America. Description
The species is divided into two varieties, [4] each known simultaneously as northern black currants, and by their own individual common, and scientific names; the type variety, R. h. var. hudsonianum, is also known as the Hudson Bay currant; [4] [7] whereas R. h. var. petiolare is also known as the western black currant.
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