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Ribes petraeum

Ribes petraeum

Edibility
3/5
Medicinal
0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Ribes petraeum is an erect, deciduous shrub usually growing 150 - 200cm tall[ 1145 Title AgroAtlas Publication Author Website http://www.agroatlas.ru/en/index.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An on-line database of economic plants of Russia and the surrounding countries that formed the USSR, giving botanical descriptions, distribution, habitats and uses. It also gives comprehensive information on climate, soil, pests, diseases etc ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food. It is occasionally introduced into gardens as a fruit crop, being more commonly cultivated in eastern Europe[ 317 Title Mansfeld's Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Plants Publication Author Website http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/pls/htmldb_pgrc/f?p=185:3:4292127278597336 Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Terse details of a huge range of useful plants. ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintemperate
Native RangeEurasia - France and Spain, east through Ukraine and Turkey to southern Siberia, Mongolia, western China; N. Africa - Algeria
HabitatMountains from C. Europe to the Pyrenees[ 50 Title Flora Europaea Publication Author ? Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 1964 ISBN - Description An immense work in 6 volumes (including the index). The standard reference flora for Europe, it is very terse though and with very little extra information. Not for the casual reader. ]. Grows in the mountainous forest zone under the canopy, in flood-lands and along brook beds; more common in areas covered by dark, coniferous forests; at elevations up to the tree line[ 1145 Title AgroAtlas Publication Author Website http://www.agroatlas.ru/en/index.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An on-line database of economic plants of Russia and the surrounding countries that formed the USSR, giving botanical descriptions, distribution, habitats and uses. It also gives comprehensive information on climate, soil, pests, diseases etc ].