Ribes curvatum
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.
Genus
Other taxa in genus
- Ribes alpinum
- Ribes ambiguum
- Ribes americanum
- Ribes × beatonii
- Ribes bracteosum
- Ribes cereum
- Ribes ciliatum
- 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 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 1⁄4 in. long; petals very short, white; ovary covered with resinous glands; stamens 1⁄4 in. long, erect, both they and the style downy. Fruits globose, glabrous, 1⁄3 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.