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Ribes niveum Lindl.

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

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'Ribes niveum' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/ribes/ribes-niveum/). Accessed 2025-05-14.

Family

  • Grossulariaceae

Genus

Glossary

ovary
Lowest part of the carpel containing the ovules; later developing into the fruit.
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.
bloom
Bluish or greyish waxy substance on leaves or fruits.
glabrous
Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
globose
globularSpherical or globe-shaped.
reflexed
Folded backwards.
style
Generally an elongated structure arising from the ovary bearing the stigma at its tip.
truncate
Appearing as if cut off.

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Credits

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

Recommended citation
'Ribes niveum' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/ribes/ribes-niveum/). Accessed 2025-05-14.

An armed deciduous shrub up to 9 ft high, the young shoots quite glabrous; spines solitary or in threes, about 1⁄2 in. long. Leaves between roundish and kidney-shaped, three- to five-lobed, 1 to 11⁄2 in. across, usually truncate at the base, the lobes unequally and bluntly toothed. Flowers two to four together in slender-stalked, drooping clusters. Receptacle glabrous, white; sepals ultimately much reflexed, leaving the stamens exposed for 1⁄3 in. Ovary glabrous, stamens and style downy. Fruits globose, glabrous, black with a purplish bloom, about 1⁄3 in. in diameter. Bot. Mag., t. 8849.

Native of western N. America; introduced in 1826. This gooseberry is rather pretty and distinct in its wholly white flowers, which open in April.

R × robustum Jancz

A hybrid between R. niveum and either R. oxyacanthoides or R. inerme (the latter not treated here). The plant at Kew made a vigorous bush and was received in 1890 from Mr Nyeland, gardener to the King of Denmark.

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