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|familia=Grossulariaceae
|genus=Ribes
|species=uva-crispa
|common_name=Gooseberry
|habit=shrub
|Min ht metric=cm
|Min ht metric=cm
|lifespan=perennial
|exposure=sun, part-sun
|water=moderate
|features=deciduous, edible, fruit
|Temp Metric=°F
|Temp Metric=°F
|image=Stachelbeeren.jpg
|image=Upload.png
|image_width=200
|image_width=240
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'''Adaptation''': Gooseberries grow best in summer humid, cool regions with great winter chilling. In California they are fairly productive in the coolest parts of the San Francisco Bay Area, the outer Coast Ranges and coastal northern California. They are probably not worth trying in southern California. except at high elevations. With proper attention gooseberries can be grown in containers.
'''Growth Habit''': Gooseberries are deciduous shrubs, fast growing under optimum conditions to 3 feet tall and 6 feet wide. The plant is suitable for training as a standard. American types have weeping stems that will root wherever they touch the ground and can be invasive. Annual growth is in a single flush in spring. The roots are superficial, fine and easily damaged by frequent cultivation.
'''Foliage''': The buds perk up early in the spring, dotting the stems with green when most other plants are still tawny. The leaves are alternate, single, deeply lobed, and glossy dark green (European types), or pale to gray-green and sometimes finely pubescent (American types). The stems are thin, becoming woody, with a large thorn at each axil. American gooseberry stems are densely bristly, with one or more additional thorns at each axil. Leaf size and number are reduced under heat or light stress, and are easily burned by intense sunlight. Plants that have been subject to drought may make a new growth flush after deep irrigation. If the roots are lost, regrowth will wait until the following spring.
'''Flowers''': The inconspicuous flowers, green with pink flushed petals, open in early spring. They are borne laterally on one-year old wood and on short spurs of older wood. The flowers are self-fertile and pollinated by wind and insects, including bees. Each flower bud opens to yield from one to four flowers, depending on cultivar.
'''Fruit''': The fruit, borne singly or in pairs at the axils, is a berry with many minute seeds at the center. A gooseberry may be green, white (gray-green), yellow, or shades of red from pink to purple to almost black. Fruits of the European gooseberry may be very large, like a small plum, but are usually 1 inch long, less in width. American gooseberry fruits are smaller (to 1/2 inch), perfectly round, all becoming pink to wine-red at maturity. Skin color is most intense in full sunlight. Berries generally drop when overripe. The fruit has a flavor all its own, the best dessert cultivars as luscious as the best apple, strawberry or grape.
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Gooseberry. A bush-fruit, grown for its large berries, which are mostly consumed green in cookery.
Gooseberry. A bush-fruit, grown for its large berries, which are mostly consumed green in cookery.
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{{Inc|
Ribes Grossularia, Linn. (Grossularia reclinata, Mill.). Shrub, to
3 ft.: branches ascending or reclining, with stout spines, about
1/2in. long, mostly in 3's, st. sometimes bristly: lvs. suborbicular,
cordate to broadly cuneate, 3-5-lobed with crenulate-dentate, obtusish
lobes, pubescent or glabrous, 3/4-2 1/2 in. broad: fls. 1-2, greenish;
bracts small; ovary pubescent and often glandular; calyx-tube
short-campanulate, about as long as the usually pubescent reflexed
sepals; stamens shorter than sepals; style pubescent: fr. globose to
ovoid, usually pubescent and glandular-bristly. Eu., N. Afr.,
Caucasus. Var. Uva-crispa, Smith (var.
pubescens, W. D. Koch. R. Uva-crispa, Linn.). Low shrub: lvs. smaller,
pubescent: ovary pubescent, not glandular: fr. very small, yellowish,
pubescent. Var. reclinatum, Berl. (var. glabrum, W. D. Koch. R.
reclinatum, Linn.). Lvs., calyx and fr. glabrous.—This species is the
parent of the European gooseberries.
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==Cultivation==
==Cultivation==
'''Location''': Gooseberries like morning sun, afternoon part-shade and buoyant air circulation. They are most productive in full sunlight but the leaves sunburn easily under California conditions. They can be grown in the high shade of fruit trees such as persimmon or on the north side of buildings. American gooseberry are much more sun tolerant. Plants collapse quickly when soil or air temperature exceeds 85° F.
'''Location''': Gooseberries like morning sun, afternoon part-shade and buoyant air circulation. They are most productive in full sunlight but the leaves sunburn easily under California conditions. They can be grown in the high shade of fruit trees such as persimmon or on the north side of buildings. American gooseberry are much more sun tolerant. Plants collapse quickly when soil or air temperature exceeds 85° F.
==References==
==References==
*[http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/gooseberry.html CRFG Gooseberry Fruit Facts]
*[http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/gooseberry.html CRFG Gooseberry Fruit Facts]
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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