Taxon: Ribes rubrum L.

Common names:

• common currant   (Source: Hortus 3 [as R. sativum]) – English
  
• garden currant   (Source: Hortus 3 [as R. sativum]) – English
  
• red currant   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• red garden currant   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• white currant   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – English
  
• hong cha biao zi   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• ribs   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Danish
  
• groseillier à grappes   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – French
  
• groseillier commun   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• groseillier rouge   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Ribisel   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – German
  
• rote Johannisbeere   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• weiße Johannisbeere   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – German
  
• ribes rosso   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Italian
  
• ribisi   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Italian
  
• aka-suguri   (Source: F JapanOhwi [as R. sativum]) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• fusa-suguri   (Source: F Japan ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• smorodina krasnaâ   (Source: F Baltic ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• grosellero común   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• grosellero rojo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• röda vinbär   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide F ChinaEng)
  
• Human food: beverage base   (fide F ChinaEng)
  
• Human food: fruit   (fide Cornucopia, as Ribes sativum)
  
• Gene sources: primary genetic relative of red currant   (fide Temp Fruit Cr Breed 181. 2008)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of black currant   (sterile hybrids with R. nigrum produced fide Pl Breed Rev 29:152. 2007)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  
• Weed   (fide Rep NCEPPC)
  

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View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: United Kingdom [possibly native in s.]
  Middle Europe: Belgium; Germany; Netherlands
  Southwestern Europe: France; Spain [possibly native in n.]

• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Iceland; Ireland; Norway [s.]; Sweden [s.]
  Middle Europe: Czech Republic; Hungary; Poland; Slovakia
  East Europe: Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania
  Southeastern Europe: Croatia; Italy; Romania; Slovenia
• widely naturalized elsewhere in temperate regions

• widely cultivated in temperate regions

References:

• Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds. Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource).
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Berger, A. 1924. A taxonomic review of currants and gooseberries. New York Agric. Exp. St. Techn. Bull. 109:14. [accepts for R. spicatum Robson].
• Brennan, R. M. 2008. Chapter 6. Currants and gooseberries. Pp. 177–196 in: Hancock, J. F., ed., Temperate fruit crop breeding: germplasm to genomics.
• Campbell, F. T., ed. 1995. Report of National Coalition of Exotic Plant Pest Councils. (unpublished draft)
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. [= R. spicatum Robson].
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Heywood, V. H. & D. Zohary. 1995. A catalogue of the wild relatives of cultivated plants native to Europe. Fl. Medit. 5:392.
• Hummer, K. E. & D. L. Barney. 2002. Currants. HortTechnol. 12:377–387. [this review mentioned that selection of this species occurred in NW Europe].
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. [in part = R. silvestre (Lam.) Mertens & Koch & R. spicatum Robson].
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Jalas, J. & J. Suominen. 1972–. Atlas florae europaeae.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976). [in part = R. silvestre (Lam.) Mert. & W. D. J. Koch & R. spicatum Robson].
• Laasimer, L. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of the Baltic countries; compendium of vascular plants.
• Lanham, P. G. & R. M. Brennan. 1998. Characterization of the genetic resources of redcurrant (Ribes rubrum: subg. Ribesia) using anchored microsatellite markers. Theor. Appl. Genet. 96:917–921.
• Lanham, P. G. & R. M. Brennan. 2001. Genetic diversity in Ribes. Acta Hort. 546:135–137.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. [accepts for R. spicatum Robson].
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.). [= R. sativum (Rchb.) Syme].
• Pignatti, S. 1982. Flora d'Italia.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Senters, A. E. & D. E. Soltis. 2003. Phylogenetic relationships in Ribes (Grossulariaceae) inferred from ITS sequence data. Taxon 52:51–66.
• Stace, C. 1995. New flora of the British Isles.
• Terrell, E. E. et al. 1986. Agric. Handb. no. 505.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, second edition.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Ribes rubrum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Ribes rubrum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Ribes rubrum.

Synonyms:

• (=) Ribes rubrum var. sativum Rchb.
  
• (=) Ribes sativum (Rchb.) Syme
  (previously associated with 71 accessions)
• (=) Ribes sylvestre (Lam.) Mert. & W. D. J. Koch
  
• (≡) Ribes vulgare Lam.
  (previously associated with 134 accessions)
• (=) Ribes vulgare var. macrocarpum Jancz.
  
• (=) Ribes vulgare var. sylvestre Lam.
  

Check other web resources for Ribes rubrum L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Ribes rubrum cultivars
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

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Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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