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Ribes rubrum

(Cultivated Currant)

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Interesting Facts

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Common Names

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Common Names in Arabic:

Kishmish Ahmar, Nnbaq Hhmar (Morocco)

Common Names in Chinese:

Ru Hong Cu Li

Common Names in Danish:

Have-Ribs, Ribs

Common Names in Dutch:

Rode Aalbes, Rode Bessen, Rodetrosbes

Common Names in English:

Cultivated Currant, Common Currant, Garden Currant, Red Currant, White Currant

Common Names in Finnish:

Herukka, Lännenpunaherukka, Punaherukka, Valkea Viinimarja, Valkoherukka, Viinimarja

Common Names in French:

Groseillier Commun, Groseillier Rouge

Common Names in German:

Johannisbeerstrauch, Rote Johannisbeere

Common Names in Greek:

Fragostafyla Kokkina, Fragostafylla, Fragostafylo

Common Names in Italian:

Ribes Rosso, Ribisi

Common Names in Japanese:

Aka Fusa Suguri, Aka-Suguri, Shiro Fusa Suguri

Common Names in Portuguese:

Groselheira Vermelha

Common Names in Russian:

Smorodina, смородина

Common Names in Spanish:

Grosella Colorada, Grosella Roja, Grosellero Común, Grosellero Rojo

Common Names in Swedish:

Röda Vinbär, Trädgårdsvinbär

Description

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Genus Ribes

Shrubs , rarely small trees , deciduous, rarely evergreen or semievergreen, sometimes epiphytic. Branchlets spiny , prickly, or unarmed ; spines sometimes verticillate below nodes. Buds with several scarious , papery , or herbaceous scales . Leaves alternate, rarely fascicled, petiolate , exstipulate ; leaf blade palmately lobed or rarely entire, folded or rarely convolute in bud. Inflorescences many- or few-flowered racemes , rarely corymbs or subsessile umbels, sometimes flowers clustered or solitary. Bracts ovate to lanceolate, rarely ligulate or linear . Flowers bisexual , or unisexual and shrubs dioecious. Calyx tube rotate to cylindric or tubular , basally adnate to ovary; lobes (4 or) 5, erect or reflexed at anthesis , petaloid , sometimes changing in fruit. Petals (4 or) 5, concolorous , alternate with and often smaller than calyx lobes, sometimes absent. Stamens (4 or) 5, alternate with petals and inserted on rim of calyx tube or slightly lower, often vestigial or with undeveloped pollen in female flowers. Ovary inferior, rarely semi-inferior, shortly stalked , 1-loculed, vestigial or absent in male flowers; ovules many. Style 2-lobed or divided for almost 1/2 its length , rarely entire. Fruit a juicy berry, with persistent calyx apically. Seeds many, albuminous ; testa and endosperm gelatinous ; embryo cylindric, minute.

About 160 species: mainly in cold and temperate regions of the N hemisphere, abundant in E Asia; 59 species (25 endemic, five introduced ) in China.[1]

Physical Description

Species Ribes rubrum

Shrubs 1-1.5 m tall. Branchlets glabrous or scattered shortly stalked glandular , unarmed . Buds purplish brown, oblong-ovoid to oblong , 5-7 mm, apex obtuse or acute. Petiole 3-6 cm, sometimes puberulent , glandular hairy near base ; leaf blade suborbicular , 3-7 × 4-9 cm, glabrous, rarely puberulent abaxially or sparsely stalked glandular along veins, base cordate, rarely subtruncate; lobes 3-5, broadly ovate-triangular, margin coarsely sharply serrate, apex obtuse to acute; terminal lobe subequaling lateral ones. Racemes erect then nodding , 2-6 cm, 5-15-flowered; rachis and pedicels sparsely shortly stalked glandular; bracts broadly ovate , rarely suborbicular, 1-2 mm, glabrous. Flowers bisexual , 6-8 mm in diam.; pedicel 3-5 mm. Calyx greenish or greenish brown, glabrous; tube pelviform, 1-1.5 mm; lobes erect, spatulate-orbicular, 2-2.5 mm. Petals purplish, subspatulate to subflabellate, 0.5-1 mm. Stamens equaling or longer than petals. Ovary glabrous. Style equaling or longer than stamens, 2-lobed. Fruit red, globose , rarely ellipsoid , 0.8-1.1 cm in diam., glabrous. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Jul-Aug. [source]

Habit: Shrub

Flowers: Bloom Period: April, May. • Flower Color: pale green

Size/Age/Growth

Size: 24-36" tall.

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,684 meters (0 to 5,525 feet).[2]

Biology

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Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Growth

Culture: Space 36-48" apart.

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full sun .

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 4a, 4b, 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b. (map)

Taxonomy

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Synonyms

R. spicatum E. Robson • Ribes sativum Syme • Ribes scandicum Hedlund • Ribes sylvestre (Lam.) Mert. & Koch • Ribes vulgare Lam.

Notes

Publishing author : L. Publication : Sp. Pl. 1: 200 1753 [1 May 1753]

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Similar Species

Members of the genus Ribes

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 254 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

R. acerifolium (Mapleleaf Currant) · R. alpinum (Alpine Currant) · R. alpinum var. japonicum (Mountain Currant) · R. alpinum var. mandshuricum (Mountain Currant) · R. alpinum 'Aureum' (Alpine Currant) · R. alpinum 'Green Jeans' (Alpine Currant) · R. alpinum 'Green Mound' (Green Mound Alpine Currant) · R. alpinum 'Spreg' (Green Jeans Currant) · R. amarum (Bitter Gooseberry) · R. amarum var. amarum (Bitter Gooseberry) · R. americanum (American Black Currant) · R. anarum (Bitter Gooseberry) · R. aureum (Clove Currant) · R. aureum var. aureum (Golden Currant) · R. aureum var. gracillimum (Golden Currant) · R. aureum var. villosum (Buffalo Currant) · R. aureum var. villosum 'Crandall' (Buffalo Currant) · R. binominatum (Ground Gooseberry) · R. bracteosum (Blue Currant) · R. californicum (Hillside Gooseberry) · R. californicum var. californicum (Hillside Gooseberry) · R. californicum var. hesperium (Hillside Gooseberry) · R. canthariforme (Moreno Currant) · R. cereum (Squaw Currant) · R. cereum var. cereum (White Squaw Currant) · R. cereum var. colubrinum (Wax Currant) · R. cereum var. pedicellare (Whiskey Currant) · R. cruentum (Shinyleaf Currant) · R. cruentum var. cruentum (Shinyleaf Currant) · R. cruentum var. oregonense (Oregon Currant) · R. curvatum (Granite Gooseberry) · R. cynosbati (Dog Berry) · R. davidii (Currant) · R. diacanthum (Siberian Currant) · R. divaricatum (Spreading Gooseberry) · R. divaricatum var. divaricatum (Spreading Gooseberry) · R. divaricatum var. parishii (Parish's Gooseberry) · R. divaricatum var. pubiflorum (Straggly Gooseberry) · R. echinellum (Miccosukee Gooseberry) · R. erythrocarpum (Crater Lake Currant) · R. fasciculatum (Fragrant Currant) · R. gardonianum (Currant) · R. glandulosum (Skunk Currant) · R. hirtellum (Hairy-Stem Gooseberry) · R. hirtum (Ribes) · R. hudsonianum (Black Currant) · R. hudsonianum var. hudsonianum (Hudson Bay Currant) · R. hudsonianum var. petiolare (Western Black Currant) · R. indecorum (Whiteflower Currant) · R. inerme (Whitestem Gooseberries) · R. inerme var. inerme (White Stem Gooseberry) · R. inerme var. klamathense (Klamath Gooseberry) · R. lacustre (Black Gooseberry) · R. lasianthum (Alpine Gooseberry) · R. laurifolium (Evergreen Currant) · R. laxiflorum (Colorado Currant) · R. leptanthum (Trumpet Gooseberry) · R. lobbii (Gummy Gooseberry) · R. malvaceum (California Black Currant) · R. malvaceum var. malvaceum (Chaparral Currant) · R. malvaceum var. viridifolium (Chaparral Currant) · R. marshallii (Hupa Gooseberry) · R. menziesii (Canyon Gooseberry) · R. menziesii var. hystrix (Canyon Gooseberry) · R. menziesii var. ixoderme (Canyon Gooseberry) · R. menziesii var. leptosmum (Canyon Gooseberry) · R. menziesii var. menziesii (Canyon Gooseberry) · R. menziesii var. senile (Canyon Gooseberry) · R. mescalerium (Mescalero Currant) · R. missouriense (Missouri Gooseberry) · R. montigenum (Alpine Prickly Currant) · R. multiflorum (Manyflower Currant) · R. nevadense (Mountain Pink Currant) · R. nevadense var. glaucescens (Sierra Currant) · R. nevadense var. jaegeri (Jaeger's Currant) · R. nevadense var. nevadense (Sierra Currant) · R. nidigrolaria (Jostaberry) · R. nigrum (Black Currant) · R. nigrum 'Alagan' (Black Currant) · R. nigrum 'Amos Black' (Black Currant) · R. nigrum 'Baldwin' (Black Currant) · R. nigrum 'Beauty of Altay' (Black Currant) · R. nigrum 'Ben Alder' (Black Currant) · R. nigrum 'Ben Connan' (Black Currant) · R. nigrum 'Ben Gairn' (Black Currant) · R. nigrum 'Ben Lomond' (Black Currant) · R. nigrum 'Ben More' (Black Currant) · R. nigrum 'Ben Nevis' (Black Currant) · R. nigrum 'Ben Sarek' (Black Currant) · R. nigrum 'Ben Tirran' (Black Currant) · R. nigrum 'Ben Vane' (Blackcurrant 'ben Vane') · R. nigrum 'Blackdown' (Black Currant) · R. nigrum 'Black Naples' (Black Currant) · R. nigrum 'Black Reward' (Black Currant) · R. nigrum 'Black September' (Black Currant) · R. nigrum 'Boskoop Giant' (Black Currant) · R. nigrum 'Bova' (Black Currant) · R. nigrum 'Broadtorp' (Black Currant) · R. nigrum 'Champion' (Black Currant) · R. nigrum 'Climax' (Black Currant)

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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 22, 2007:

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Footnotes

  1. Lu Ling-ti, Crinan Alexander "Ribes". in Flora of China Vol. 8 Page 428. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
  2. Mean = 159.930 meters (524.705 feet), Standard Deviation = 195.850 based on 10,659 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
Last Revised: 2012-05-01