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Ribes, photographed by an iNaturalist contributor
(c) Brodie Springer, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Brodie Springer · CC BY-NC
#816 most planted

Ribes

Currant · also Gooseberry

428
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
4
cities
3.9 in
median trunk (10 cm, 394 measured)

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Ribes is a genus of flowering plants primarily found in the temperate Northern Hemisphere. Many species are cultivated for their edible fruits and ornamental value. However, Ribes can host white pine blister rust, a fungal disease detrimental to five-needle pines.

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
    389—3.9 in
  2. Copenhagen · Denmark
    238.8 yr—
  3. Ottawa · Canada
    11——
  4. London · United Kingdom
    5—0.4 in

Traits

Soil
Loamy
Blooms
May, Jun

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

  • Caucasus mixed forests

Temperate Conifer Forests

  • Elburz Range forest steppe

Montane Grasslands & Shrublands

  • Kuh Rud and Eastern Iran montane woodlands

Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands & Scrub

  • Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests

Other Ribes in the catalogue

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

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