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Gooseberry growing was popular in 19th-century Britain. The 1879 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica described gooseberries thus: [11]. The gooseberry is indigenous to many parts of Europe and western Asia, growing naturally in alpine thickets and rocky woods in the lower country, from France eastward, well into the Himalayas and peninsular India.
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 (/ 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.
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
Precooling within one to two hours post-harvest to storage temperature, generally 0 °C (32 °F), via forced air cooling increases the storage life of berries by about a third. [35] Under optimum storage conditions, raspberries and blackberries last for two to five days, strawberries 7–10 days, blueberries two to four weeks, and cranberries ...
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. The hairy to hairless leaves are 1–3 cm (3 ⁄ 8 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 in) long and divided into 3–5 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 8 –2 in) oblong, toothed lobes. [4]
Ribes missouriense, the Missouri gooseberry, Missouri currant or wild gooseberry, is a prickly, many-stemmed shrub native to the north-central United States (Great Lakes, upper Mississippi and lower Missouri Valleys). Scattered populations have been found further east, most of them likely escapes cultivation.
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 ...