Ribes gayanum
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Ribes gayanum' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Synonyms
- Rebis (sic) gayanum Spach
- R. villosum C. Gay, not Nutt.
Other taxa in genus
- Ribes alpinum
- Ribes ambiguum
- Ribes americanum
- Ribes × beatonii
- Ribes bracteosum
- Ribes cereum
- Ribes ciliatum
- Ribes curvatum
- Ribes diacanthum
- Ribes fasciculatum
- 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
An unarmed evergreen shrub 3 to 5 ft high; the young wood, leaf-stalks, flower-stalks, ovary, and calyx shaggy with soft hairs. Leaves stout, greyish, very broadly or roundish ovate, 1 to 2 in. long and broad, the three lobes rounded and toothed, the base usually straight, downy on both sides. Flowers bell-shaped, yellow, honey-scented, closely packed in erect, cylindrical racemes, 1 to 2 in. long, 1⁄2 in. in diameter. Berries about the size of peas, purple-black, hairy. Bot. Mag., t. 7611.
Native of central Chile. A handsome evergreen, and distinct in the shape and colour of its inflorescence, and the hairiness of its various parts. Some forms are less downy. Flowers in early June. It has been cultivated at Kew for many years, and is quite hardy.