Ribes

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Ribes
Cultivated Eurasian gooseberry
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n : Plantae : Magnoliophyta : Magnoliopsida : Saxifragales : Grossulariaceae : Ribes \n
Species
\nR. sativum Syme whitecurrant \nR. rubrum L. redcurrant \nR. nigrum L. blackcurrant \nR. grossularia L. Eurasian gooseberry \nR. hirtellum North American gooseberry \nR. sanguineum Flowering currant \nand about 150 others\n

The genus Ribes of flowering plants is the only one placed in the family Grossulariaceae. Ribes includes the currants, including the edible blackcurrant, redcurrant and whitecurrant and many ornamental species. and also the gooseberries. They should not to be confused with the currant that is a kind of dried grape). Seven subgenera are recognised. A few taxonomists place the gooseberries in a separate genus, Grossularia, but as they can be hybridised with blackcurrants (the result is called a Jostaberry), this seems inappropriate.

External link

\n*Entry on Ribes at Mark Rieger's fruit crops site at the University of Georgia

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Ribes is also the name of a commune of the Ardèche département in southern France.