Ribes petraeum

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names

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Read about Ribes petraeum in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Ribes petraeum, Wulf. (R. bullatum, Otto and Dietr.). Upright shrub, to 8 ft.: branches usually glabrous: lvs. roundish, subcordate or truncate, usually 3-lobed, with acutish lobes, rugose, pubescent beneath, 3-4 in. broad: racemes dense, to 4 in. long; fls. red or pink; pedicels short; bracts very small; calyx-tube broadly campanulate with short spreading rounded ciliate sepals; petals nearly half as long as sepals, with a callosity below the base: fr. dark red, acid. Mts. of Cent. and S. Eu., Caucasus, N. Asia. R.F.G. 23:138. Var. carpathicum, Jancz. (R. carpathicum, Kit.). Lvs. usually 3-lobed, rugose, glabrescent: racemes looser and smaller. Carpathian Mts. Var. Biebersteinii, Jancz. (R. Biebersteinii, Berl. R. caucasicum, Bieb. R. macrobotrys, Hort.). Lvs. usually 5-lobed, with short obtuse lobes, cordate, not rugose, glabrescent or pubescent: racemes long; fls. reddish: fr. red or blackish purple. Caucasus. Var. atropurpureum, Jancz. (R. atropurpureum, C. A. Mey.). Lvs. subcordate or truncate, usually 3-lobed, with acutish lobes, not rugose, glabrescent or pubescent beneath, to 6 in. broad: racemes short; fls. purple; the disk inside without callosities: fr. red or blackish purple. Siberia. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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