Ribes..but which one?

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Ribes..but which one?

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gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8918
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Mon Apr 25, 22 4:18 pm Post subject: Ribes..but which one?
Leaves like a gooseberry, no thorns. Growing tall like a currant. Any ideas? Hopefully something edible Not sure where I got it from

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45669
Location: Essex

Posted: Mon Apr 25, 22 5:36 pm Post subject:
Flowers not like a ribes are they?

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8918
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Mon Apr 25, 22 5:37 pm Post subject:
No. And it's most odd... everything else about it says Ribes....

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8918
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Mon Apr 25, 22 5:43 pm Post subject:

Did more googling... hadn't turned something up before..
Ribes odoratum
Botanical details
Family
Grossulariaceae
Native to the UK
No
Foliage
Deciduous
Habit
Bushy
Genus
Ribes can be deciduous or evergreen shrubs, sometimes spiny, with simple, usually palmately lobed leaves and small tubular or bell-shaped, solitary or racemose flowers borne in spring or summer, followed by juicy, sometimes edible berries

Name status
Correct

Plant range
Central USA

So it might be edible...but how it turned up in my garden is a mystery!!...as a small seedling and is now a three foot tall bush, and has flowered at last!!

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46211
Location: yes

Posted: Mon Apr 25, 22 7:37 pm Post subject:
maybe a better random than my ragweed

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15967

Posted: Tue Apr 26, 22 6:57 am Post subject:
Sometimes things do turn up, often courtesy of birds. We have cultivated raspberries in the woods, but the main area for them is at least half a mile from the nearest house, and unlikely to have been dumped. The birds sit on deer fence, branches etc. and excrete the seed.

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