Ribes speciosum is a species of flowering plant in the family Grossulariaceae, which includes the edible currants and gooseberries. It is a spiny deciduousshrub with spring-flowering, elongate red flowers that resemble fuchsias, though it is not closely related. Its common name is fuchsia-flowered gooseberry.[2] It is native to central and southern California and Baja California, where it grows in the scrub and chaparral of the coastal mountain ranges.[3][4]
Ribes speciosum is a spreading shrub which can reach 3 metres (9.8 ft) in maximum height, its stems coated in bristles with three long spines at each stem node. The leathery leaves are shallowly divided into several lobes and are mostly hairless, the upper surfaces dark green and shiny.[5]
The inflorescence is a solitary flower or raceme of up to four flowers. The flower is a tube made up of the gland-studded scarlet sepals with the four red petals inside. The red stamens and stigmas protrude far from the mouth of the flower, each measuring up to 4 centimeters (1.6 inches) long.[5]
The fruit is a red-orange berry about a centimeter (0.4 inch) long, is covered densely in glandular bristles.[5]
^ ab Originally described and published in Fl. Amer. Sept. 2: 731-732. 1814 [1813]. "Name - Ribes speciosum Pursh". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved August 1, 2010.
^ ab"RHS Plant Selector - Ribes speciosum". Royal Horticultural Society. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
^Calflora taxon report, University of California, Ribes speciosum Pursh, fuchsia flowered gooseberry, fuchsiaflower gooseberry
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