Tassel currant

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Tassel currant
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Tassel currant ( Ribes multiflorum )

Systematics
Eudicotyledons
Nuclear eudicotyledons
Order : Saxifragales (Saxifragales)
Family : Gooseberry Family (Grossulariaceae)
Genre : Currants ( ribes )
Type : Tassel currant
Scientific name
Ribes multiflorum
Kit. ex Schult.

The tassel currant ( Ribes multiflorum ) is a shrub up to 2 meters high with greenish yellow flowers and dark red fruits from the gooseberry family (Grossulariaceae). The natural range of the species is in Europe and Asia Minor. The species is very rarely cultivated.

description

The tassel currant is an up to 2 meters high, upright and unreinforced shrub with thick, ash-gray, initially hairy branches. The buds are black-red to black-brown, ovate to oblong ovoid, 7 to 9 millimeters long, hairy and pointed. The leaves have a 3 to 5 seldom to 8 centimeters long, fluffy hairy stalk. The leaf blade is simple, three to five-lobed, rounded, 5 to 10 centimeters long, with a truncated or flat heart-shaped base. The lobes are broadly ovate, notched-serrated with a blunt or pointed end. Both sides are hairy, but the underside is denser than the top.

The inflorescences are 5 to 8 rarely up to 12 centimeters long, initially upright and later hanging clusters of up to 50 hermaphrodite flowers with a hairy inflorescence axis. The bracts are ovate-rounded, 1 to 2 millimeters long and lightly downy hairy. The flower stalks are hairy and 2 to 4 millimeters long. The flower cup is basin-shaped to flat dome-shaped, yellowish green, 1 to 1.5 millimeters long, with five warts on the inside, which are connected by a ring. The calyx lobes are obovate-tongue-shaped, 1.5 to 2.5 millimeters long and bent back when they bloom. The petals are obovate to almost spatulate, 1 to 1.5 millimeters long and also bent back. The stamens are longer than the petals. The ovary is bare, the pen is approximately the same length as the stamens and about zweigelappt over half the length. The fruits are dark red, glabrous, round with a diameter of 7 to 9 millimeters. The tassel-currant flowers from April to May, the fruits ripen from June to July.

Occurrence and location requirements

The natural range is in Bulgaria, in the states of the former Yugoslavia , in Greece and on Sardinia . The tassel-currant grows in cool, moist forests, on acidic to slightly alkaline, humus-rich, sandy-loamy to loamy, nutrient-rich soils in light to partially shaded locations. The species tolerates warmth and is usually frost hardy .

Systematics

The tassel-currant ( Ribes multiflorum ) is a species from the genus of currants ( Ribes ) in the gooseberry family (Grossulariaceae). It is in the subgenus Ribes of section Ribes assigned. The species was first described scientifically in 1819 by Joseph August Schultes . The generic name Ribes is derived from the Arabic name of a type of rhubarb . The name was adopted for currants in the Middle Ages because of the sour taste of the berries of some species, which is reminiscent of the taste of rhubarb. The specific epithet multiflorum comes from Latin and means "many-flowered".

Subspecies

There are two subspecies in Europe:

  • Ribes multiflorum subsp. multiflorum
  • Ribes multiflorum subsp. sandalioticum Arrigoni ; she is endemic to Sardinia and has chromosome number 2n = 16.

use

The tassel currant is cultivated very rarely, but is a hybrid partner of several garden varieties.

proof

literature

  • Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven (Ed.): Flora of China . Volume 8: Brassicaceae through Saxifragaceae . Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis 2001, ISBN 0-915279-93-2 , pp. 440 (English).
  • Andreas Roloff , Andreas Bärtels: Flora of the woods. Purpose, properties and use. With a winter key from Bernd Schulz. 3rd, corrected edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2008, ISBN 978-3-8001-5614-6 , p. 540.
  • Jost Fitschen : Woody flora . 12th, revised and expanded edition. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2007, ISBN 3-494-01422-1 , p. 728 .
  • Helmut Genaust: Etymological dictionary of botanical plant names. 3rd, completely revised and expanded edition. Nikol, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-937872-16-7 (reprint from 1996).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German name after Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 540 and after Fitschen: Gehölzflora , p. 728.
  2. ↑ a b Lu Lingdi, Crinan Alexander: Ribes multiflorum , in: Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven (Ed.): Flora of China . Volume 8: Brassicaceae through Saxifragaceae . Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis 2001, ISBN 0-915279-93-2 , pp. 440 (English). .
  3. ↑ a b c d Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 540.
  4. ↑ a b c Ribes multiflorum. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed May 7, 2012 . .
  5. ↑ Exactly: Etymological Dictionary of Botanical Plant Names, pp. 538–539.
  6. ↑ Exactly: Etymological Dictionary of Botanical Plant Names , p. 398.
  7. ↑ Jaakko Jalas, Juha Suominen, Raino Lampinen, Arto Kurtto: Atlas florae europaeae . Volume 12 (Resedaceae to Platanaceae). Page 227, Helsinki 1999. ISBN 951-9108-12-2
  8. ^ Ribes multiflorum at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis

Web links

Commons : Ribes multiflorum  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Ribes multiflorum. In: The Plant List. Retrieved May 7, 2012 .