Ribes fasciculatum Sieb. & Zucc.

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

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

Genus

Synonyms

  • R. japonicum sens . Carr., not Maxim.

Glossary

glabrous
Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
umbel
Inflorescence in which pedicels all arise from same point on peduncle. May be flat-topped (as in e.g. Umbelliferae) to spherical (as in e.g. Araliaceae). umbellate In form of umbel.
unisexual
Having only male or female organs in a flower.

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Credits

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

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

A deciduous unarmed shrub 3 to 5 ft high; young shoots finely downy. Leaves three- to five-lobed, the largest 2 in. long, 212 to 3 in. wide, the lobes coarsely toothed, usually more or less downy; stalk downy and with feathered bristles near the base. Flowers unisexual, the sexes on separate plants. Males clustered four to nine together in a stalkless umbel, each flower is on its own stalk without uniting on a common one, yellow, fragrant; females usually in pairs, sometimes three or four. Fruits erect on a stalk 15 in. long, round, 13 to 12 in. in diameter, glabrous, bright scarlet.

Native of China, Japan, and Korea, and distinct from all other species in cultivation in having the flowers clustered in fascicles.


var. chinense Maxim.

Synonyms
R. billiardii Carr

A taller shrub, partially evergreen, more downy than the type. The fruits of both are ornamental, and remain long on the branches.