Ribes laurifolium Jancz.

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

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

Genus

Glossary

bifid
Divided up to halfway into two parts.
ciliate
Fringed with long hairs.
androdioecious
With only male or only hermaphrodite flowers on individual plants.
ellipsoid
An elliptic solid.
glabrous
Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
glandular
Bearing glands.
ovate
Egg-shaped; broadest towards the stem.
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.
style
Generally an elongated structure arising from the ovary bearing the stigma at its tip.

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

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

An unarmed evergreen dioecious shrub, rarely more than 3 ft high in cultivation, sparsely branched; branchlets sometimes reddish when young, at first glandular, then smooth and brown. Leaves leathery, ovate to oval, pointed, the largest 5 in. long, half as wide, coarsely toothed, dark dull green above, paler and brighter beneath, glabrous on both surfaces; stalk bristly. Flowers greenish yellow, produced in late winter or early spring. Male flowers 38 to 12 in. wide, in nodding racemes up to 2 in. or so long; receptacle cup-shaped, downy; abortive style bifid. Female flowers up to 38 in. long, in racemes about 1 in. long, which are at first upright, later nodding; receptacle downy, flask-shaped or oblong; stamens reduced to staminodes. Bracts in both sexes about 12 in. long, ciliate. Fruits ellipsoid, about 58 in. long, reddish but said to be black when fully ripe. Bot. Mag., t. 8543.

Native of W. China; discovered and introduced in 1908 by Wilson, according to whom it is rare in the wild. It is not a showy plant, but is interesting and welcome in flowering as early as February or March. Male plants are more ornamental than female, the racemes being longer and the flowers larger. Award of Merit 1912. It needs no pruning, apart from the occasional removal of the oldest stems.