Ribes alpestre
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Ribes alpestre, Decne. Upright shrub, to 10 ft.: branches with stout spines to 3/4in. long and usually in 3's, often bristly: lvs. cordate to truncate, 3—5-lobed, with incisely dentate, obtusish lobes, 1-2 in. broad: fls. 1-2, short-peduncled, greenish or sometimes reddish; calyx-tube campanulate, glandular; sepals oblong, reflexed, about as long as tube; petals white, elliptic, at least half as long as sepals; ovary with gland-tipped bristly hairs: fr. globose or ovoid, to 3/5in. long, with gland-tipped bristles. Himalayas, W. China. Var. giganteum, Jancz. Shrub, to 15 ft. with stout spines over 1 in. long: fls. glabrous, with smooth ovary: fr. larger, smooth, green. W. China.—R. alpestre may prove to be a desirable hedge-plant, hardy at least as far north as Mass.; in W. China, E. H. Wilson found hedges 6-8 ft. high so thick and spiny that a yak, an animal as strong as an ox, could not break through them.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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