Ribes fasciculatum
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.
Genus
Synonyms
- R. japonicum sens . Carr., not Maxim.
Infraspecifics
Other taxa in genus
- Ribes alpinum
- Ribes ambiguum
- Ribes americanum
- Ribes × beatonii
- Ribes bracteosum
- Ribes cereum
- Ribes ciliatum
- Ribes curvatum
- Ribes diacanthum
- 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 deciduous unarmed shrub 3 to 5 ft high; young shoots finely downy. Leaves three- to five-lobed, the largest 2 in. long, 21⁄2 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 1⁄5 in. long, round, 1⁄3 to 1⁄2 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