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Rheum ribes
Also called Currant Fruited Rhubarb, Warty Leaved Rhubarb
Syrian rhubarb is a wild perennial herb from mountain slopes and rocky ground, grown and gathered mainly for its edible leaf stalks and flower stalks. It needs cold winters and a sunny, well-drained site to thrive.
Rheum ribes, the Syrian rhubarb or currant-fruited rhubarb, or warty-leaved rhubarb, is an edible wild rhubarb species in the genus Rheum. It grows between 1000 and 4000 m on dunite rocks, among stones and slopes, and is now distributed in the temperate and subtropical regions of the world, chiefly in Western Asia (Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Azerbaijan, Armenia) to Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Syrian rhubarb is a partially commercial vegetable collected from wild patches in Eastern and Southern Anatolia, Kurdistan, and partly Northwestern Iran in early spring. Rheum ribes is considered as a valuable medicinal species in herbal medicine.
It is native to Syria (including the occupied Golan Heights), Azerbaijan (including Nakhichevan), Jordan, Lebanon, Armenia (as of 2011), Iraq, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Russia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rheum ribes by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
