Ribes curvatum Small

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Ribes curvatum' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/ribes/ribes-curvatum/). Accessed 2024-03-28.

Genus

Glossary

receptacle
Enlarged end of a flower stalk that bears floral parts; (in some Podocarpaceae) fleshy structure bearing a seed formed by fusion of lowermost seed scales and peduncle.
glabrous
Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
glandular
Bearing glands.
globose
globularSpherical or globe-shaped.
linear
Strap-shaped.
ovary
Lowest part of the carpel containing the ovules; later developing into the fruit.
pendent
Hanging.
reflexed
Folded backwards.
simple
(of a leaf) Unlobed or undivided.
style
Generally an elongated structure arising from the ovary bearing the stigma at its tip.

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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Ribes curvatum' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/ribes/ribes-curvatum/). Accessed 2024-03-28.

A low, deciduous, bushy shrub 3 ft high; the shoots glabrous, purplish, armed with slender, simple or triple spines. Leaves roundish, usually 1 in. or less in diameter, three- to five-lobed, toothed, slightly downy; stalk slender, downy. Flowers produced singly or in pairs (rarely more) on pendent stalks, white. Receptacle bell-shaped with linear, much reflexed sepals 14 in. long; petals very short, white; ovary covered with resinous glands; stamens 14 in. long, erect, both they and the style downy. Fruits globose, glabrous, 13 in. across, purplish green.

Native of the south-eastern United States, hardy. I brought plants from the Arnold Arboretum to Kew in July 1910, which, so far as I am aware, were the first introduced to this country. R. curvatum is, however, no longer represented at Kew. It is closely allied to R. niveum, which it resembles in its white flowers and downy style and stamens, but the glandular ovary and often glabrous anthers are different. R. curvatum is also much dwarfer in habit, and comes from the opposite side of N. America.