Ribes viburnifolium
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Ribes viburnifolium' 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 tenue
- Ribes uva-crispa
- Ribes valdivianum
An evergreen unarmed shrub 7 or 8 ft high against a wall; young shoots slightly downy at first, with numerous resin-glands. Leaves ovate or oval, 3⁄4 to 13⁄4 in. long, 1⁄2 to 11⁄4 in. wide, rounded at the base, blunt at the apex, coarsely toothed, glossy and glabrous above, almost or quite devoid of down beneath, but thickly sown with resin-dots which emit a very pleasant turpentine-like odour when rubbed; stalk downy, 1⁄8 to 1⁄6 in. long. Flowers 1⁄3 in. across, produced in April in erect racemes about 1 in. long, terminating short, densely leafy shoots; dull rose-coloured, the sepals spreading. Fruits oval, red, 1⁄3 in. long. Bot. Mag., t. 8094.
Native of Lower California and Santa Catalina Island; introduced to Kew in 1897 but is no longer there. A remarkably distinct species, of little beauty, but interesting for its evergreen aromatically scented leaves. It is tender.