Red Currant
Scientific name: Ribes rubrum L.
Diagnostic features
Shrub to 2m.
Leaves 3-10cm, glabrous to sparsely pubescent, not scented.
Flowers in pendent racemes, 4-6mm across, greenish-yellow, ± glabrous.
Hypanthium saucer-shaped.
Anther-lobes distinctly separated by connective.
Berry 6-10mm across, red or rarely whitish.
Chromosome number: 2n=16.
Habitat
Probably introduced-naturalized; woods, hedges and scrub, much grown and often obviously relict or escaped.
Distribution
Throughout most of British Isles but rare in many places; Europe.
This species is keyed out on Page 2785 in the Text Key. |
