Ribes ceriferum

Colville & Rose

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What to Eat

Edible parts: Fruit

The fruit are eaten.

Where to Find It

It is a subtropical plant.

Mexico, North America,

Countries: Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guatemala, Honduras, Haiti, Jamaica, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, Trinidad & Tobago, United States, St Vincent

How to Identify

A shrub. It grows 4.5 m tall. The leaves are almost round and 5 cm across. they have 3 lobes. They are softly hairy underneath. The flowers are reddish and in groups of 3-10. The fruit are black.

Wikipedia

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Ribes ceriferum is a Mexican species of currants. It has been found in only a small number of locations in the States of Durango and Chihuahua. Some of the known populations lie inside Parque Nacional Cascada de Basaseachic (Basaseachic Falls National Park) in Chihuahua and Parque Natural de Mexiquillo (Mexiquillo Natural Park) in Durango. Ribes ceriferum is a shrub up to 3 meters (10 feet) tall. The berries are black and hairless.

Names & Synonyms

Grosella

References (2)

Segura, S., et al, 2018, The edible fruit species in Mexico. Genet Resour Crop Evol (2018) 65:1767–1793
World Checklist of Useful Plant Species 2020. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

What to Eat

Where to Find It

How to Identify

Wikipedia

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