Ribes2 (ribez)

[NL. (Linnæus, 1737), sum is the showy flowering gooseberry or fuchsia-flowered gooseberry of California, much prized in cultivation for its bright-red drooping flowers with far-exserted red stamens. R. gracile of the central United States, its fruit bearing long red spines, is called Mi ouri gooseberry. R. rubrum, the common red currant (see currant2, 2), is native in Europe, Asia, and northern North America. R. nigrum is the garden black currant, a native of the northern Old World; R. floridum is the wild black currant of America. IMG:content-2247.png:[blocks in formation] 1, Branch with Flowers of Mi ouri Currant ( Ribes aureum). 2, fruits of red currant ( R. rubrum); 3, fruit of English gooseberry (R. Cro ularia); 4, fruit of wild gooseberry ( R. Cynosbati). R. aureum, the golden, buffalo, or Mi ouri currant, wild in the western United States, is in common cultivation for its early bright-yellow spicy-scented flowers. R. san guineum, the red-flowered currant of California and Oregon, is another well-known ornamental species. R. pro stratum, the fetid currant of northern woods in America, emits a nauseous odor when bruised. Ribesieæ (ri-be-si'ē-ē), n. pl. [NL. (A. Richard, 1823), ized by a one-celled ovary, seeds immersed in pulp, alternate undivided leaves, without free stipules, and commonly racemed or clustered flowers. It consists of the genus Ribes. rib-faced (rib'fast), a. Having the face ribbed or ridged; rib-nosed.