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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 ...
The Story of Phạm Tải and Ngọc Hoa (Phạm Tải – Ngọc Hoa) is an anonymous 18th Century Vietnamese language epic poem of 934 verses.. The poem belongs to the genre of vernacular nôm script verse poems which includes Phạm Công – Cúc Hoa, Nhị độ mai ("The Plum Tree Blossoms Twice"), Lục súc tranh công ("The Struggle of the Six Animals"), the tale of Thạch Sanh, the ...
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 ...
Breynia androgyna, also known as katuk, star gooseberry, or sweet leaf, is a shrub grown in some tropical regions as a leaf vegetable. Its multiple upright stems can reach heights of 2.5 meters and bear dark green oval leaves of length 5–6 centimetres .
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.
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 victoris is an uncommon North American species of currant known by the common name Victor's gooseberry. It is endemic to California , where it grows in the chaparral and woods of canyons in the San Francisco Bay Area and counties to the north, as far as Humboldt County .
Dovyalis hebecarpa, with common names Ceylon gooseberry, [2] ketembilla, [2] and kitambilla, [2] is a plant in the genus Dovyalis, native to Sri Lanka and southern India. The fruit are often eaten fresh, or made into jam. Some cultivars have been selected for being thornless (making harvesting easier) and for larger fruit.