Ribes ambiguum
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Ribes ambiguum' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Other taxa in genus
- Ribes alpinum
- Ribes americanum
- Ribes × beatonii
- Ribes bracteosum
- Ribes cereum
- Ribes ciliatum
- Ribes curvatum
- Ribes diacanthum
- Ribes fasciculatum
- Ribes gayanum
- Ribes glandulosum
- Ribes henryi
- Ribes lacustre
- Ribes laurifolium
- Ribes leptanthum
- Ribes lobbii
- Ribes longeracemosum
- Ribes maximowiczii
- Ribes menziesii
- Ribes mogollonicum
- Ribes nigrum
- Ribes niveum
- Ribes odoratum
- Ribes orientale
- Ribes pinetorum
- Ribes roezlii
- Ribes rubrum
- Ribes sanguineum
- Ribes speciosum
- Ribes tenue
- Ribes uva-crispa
- Ribes valdivianum
- Ribes viburnifolium
A small, sparsely branched, stout-stemmed low shrub, usually growing as an epiphyte in the wild. Leaves orbicular, 1 to 2 in. wide, cordate at the base, shallowly three- or five-lobed, toothed, downy or glabrous above, downy and glandular beneath. Flowers bisexual, greenish, paired, on pedicels 3⁄16 to 3⁄8 in. long, each furnished with a pair of bracteoles near the apex; sepals oblong-elliptic, spreading to erect. Fruits glandular bristly, broadly ellipsoid, containing numerous small seeds.
Native of central and southern Japan, where it grows on trees in mountain forests. An interesting small shrub for a cool, sheltered position in leafy soil.