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Phyllanthus emblica, the Indian gooseberry or emblic; Jamaican gooseberry tree, an herb-like plant; The "Star gooseberry", meaning either: Phyllanthus acidus, the "Otaheite gooseberry", the only Phyllanthoideae with edible fruit, or; Sauropus androgynus, a shrub grown in some tropical regions as a leaf vegetable; Within family Solanaceae:
Sapling. Phyllanthus acidus is an intermediary between a shrub and tree, reaching 2 to 9 m (6½ to 30 ft) high. [2] The tree's dense and bushy crown is composed of thickish, tough main branches, at the end of which are clusters of deciduous, greenish, 15-to-30-cm long branchlets.
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.
Ribes cynosbati L. – prickly gooseberry, eastern prickly gooseberry, dogberry, dog bramble: eastern and central United States and Canada Ribes divaricatum Douglas – spreading gooseberry, wild gooseberry, coast gooseberry, coastal black gooseberry, Parish's gooseberry, Worcesterberry [4] western North America from British Columbia to California
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
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 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.
The goose in gooseberry has been seen as a corruption of either the Dutch word kruisbes or the allied German Krausbeere, [3] or of the earlier forms of the French groseille. Alternatively, the word has been connected to the Middle High German krus ('curl, crisped'), in Latin as grossularia [ 4 ] (also the name of its subgenus within Ribes ).