Ribes petraeum
Wulfen
Rock red currant
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Fruit, Leaves - tea
The fruit can be eaten raw or cooked in tarts, jams, jellies, and similar preparations. This red currant has a very acid flavour, though it becomes pleasantly tart when fully ripe. Most people will find it too sharp to eat in quantity straight from the bush, but it makes an excellent cooked fruit in jams and preserves. Its main drawback is the high number of seeds in each berry.
Where to Find It
It is a temperate plant. It grows in the mountains in Europe.
Africa, Asia, Balkans, Bosnia, Caucasus, Europe, Georgia, Hungary, North Africa, Siberia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, Türkiye,
How to Identify
A shrub. It grows 2 m tall and does not have spines. The branches are stout. The flowers are red or pink and in groups 10 cm long. Fruit can be red or black.
How to Grow
Easily grown in a moisture retentive but well-drained loamy soil of at least moderate quality. Plants are quite tolerant of shade though do not fruit so well in such a position. Hardy to about -20°c. This is one of the species from which the cultivated forms of red currants have been derived. Plants can harbour a stage of white pine blister rust, so should not be grown in the vicinity of pine trees. Plants in this genus are notably susceptible to honey fungus.
Propagation: Seed is best sown as soon as it is ripe in autumn in a cold frame. Stored seed requires 3 months of cold stratification at between 0 and 5°c and should be sown as early in the year as possible. Under normal storage conditions seed can remain viable for 17 years or more. Prick out seedlings into individual pots when large enough to handle and grow on in a cold frame for their first winter, planting out in late spring the following year. Take cuttings of half-ripe wood, 10–15cm with a heel, in July or August in a frame. Cuttings of mature wood of the current year's growth, preferably with a heel of the previous year's growth, can be taken November to February in a cold frame or sheltered bed outdoors.
Medicinal Uses
None known
Other Uses
None known
Wikipedia
Source ↗Ribes petraeum, the rock currant, rock redcurrant, or Bieberstein's rock currant is a species of Ribes found in Europe.
Notes
There are about 150 Ribes species.
Names & Synonyms
Amierganos, Borfuge, Hagharjeni, Kaya cecemi, Kvasnice, Motskhari, Ribizla
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