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#1124 most planted

Ribes alpinum

Mountain currant · also Alpine currant

Deciduous
117
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
2
cities
3.9 in
median trunk (10 cm, 109 measured)

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Ribes alpinum is a small deciduous, dioecious shrub native to central and northern Europe, extending south to the Alps, Pyrenees, and Caucasus. In the southern parts of its range, it is typically found at high altitudes.

Where it grows

Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.

  1. Calgary · Canada
    109—3.9 in
  2. Boston · United States
    82.7 yr—

Traits

Foliage
Deciduous

Trunk diameters across every city: median 3.9 in, mean 3.9 in, 90th percentile 3.9 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.

Native range

Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.

Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests

  • Western Himalayan broadleaf forests
  • Caucasus mixed forests
  • Central China Loess Plateau mixed forests
  • Central European mixed forests

Temperate Conifer Forests

  • Western Himalayan subalpine conifer forests
  • East Afghan montane conifer forests

Other Ribes in the catalogue

4 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.

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