Ribes tenue
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Ribes tenue' 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 curvatum
- 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 uva-crispa
- Ribes valdivianum
- Ribes viburnifolium
A deciduous shrub up to 6 or 8 ft high of bushy habit and with slender unarmed, glabrous young shoots. Leaves broadly or roundish ovate in main outline, but deeply three- (sometimes five-) lobed as well as sharply and deeply toothed, each lobe pointed, the base cut straight across or slightly heart-shaped; 1 to 21⁄4 in. long, scarcely so much wide, sprinkled with appressed bristles; stalk slender, 1⁄3 to 1 in. long, reddish. Racemes of male flowers 11⁄2 to 2 in. long, female ones shorter. Flowers brownish red, main flower-stalk slightly glandular. Fruits globose, red, 1⁄4 in. wide.
Native of the Himalaya and W. China; introduced from the latter region by Wilson in 1900. It is closely related to our native R. alpinum, which differs in its greenish-yellow flowers. Beyond its neat habit and small handsomely cut leaves, it has no particular merit. It is one of the earliest of the currants to burst into leaf in spring and flowers in April.