Ribes maximowiczii Batal.

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

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'Ribes maximowiczii' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/ribes/ribes-maximowiczii/). Accessed 2024-03-30.

Genus

Glossary

glandular
Bearing glands.
globose
globularSpherical or globe-shaped.
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.

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Credits

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

Recommended citation
'Ribes maximowiczii' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/ribes/ribes-maximowiczii/). Accessed 2024-03-30.

A deciduous unarmed bush, ultimately 6 to 9 ft high, the young shoots clothed with pale hairs, some of which are glandular. Leaves of the black currant type, three- or sometimes five-lobed, 2 to 5 in. wide and about as long, glossy dark green and thinly downy above, clothed beneath with soft pale down, especially on the veins; stalk 1 to 212 in. long, downy. Racemes slender, erect, 2 to 4 in. long, about 12 in. wide, main-stalk as well as individual flower-stalks very downy and glandular. Flowers 14 in. wide, dull lurid red; receptacle funnel-shaped, glandular downy. Fruits globose, 38 in. wide, orange-coloured or red and covered with stalked glands.

Native of W. China, from Kansu to Szechwan; discovered by the Russian traveller, Potanin, in 1885; introduced by Wilson in 1904 and again in 1908 and 1910. It is a curious and remarkable currant on account of the racemes and very glandular fruit and the lurid hue of the blossoms which open in May.


var. floribundum Jesson

Synonyms
R. jessoniae Stapf

This variety differs from typical R. maximowiczii in the longer inflorescences (4 to 6 in. long), the more numerous flowers, and in the shorter and fewer glandular bristles on the berries. Bot. Mag., t. 8840. The flowering material figured in the Botanical Magazine is from a plant at Borde Hill, Sussex, raised by F. D. Godman at South Lodge from seeds sent by Wilson from W. Szechwan during his first expedition for the Arnold Arboretum. The fruiting material figured was provided by Mrs Berkeley of Spetchley Park, Worcester (sister of the famous Miss Ellen Willmott), who reported to Kew that she had made a palatable jam from the fruits.