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Stinky Black Currant

Ribes burejense

Ribes burejense, the Bureja gooseberry or stinky black currant, is a temperate shrub in the currant and gooseberry family, native to the Russian Far East, northeastern and east-central China and North Korea. It is a cold-hardy wild shrub grown mainly for ecology and hardiness rather than as a common garden fruit crop.

Family
Grossulariaceae (Grossulari family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Part shade, Full sun
Water
Water regularly during dry spells, especially while establishing, and keep the root zone evenly moist without waterlogging.
Soil
Moist, well-drained loam with plenty of organic matter.
Temperature
Hardy to deep winter cold; protect young plants from late frosts. Comfortable range roughly -30 to 25 °C.
How easy
Easy
Edible
Yes, some parts
Native range
Russian Far East to N. & EC. China and N. Korea
Climate
temperate

About

Ribes burejense, commonly referred to as the Bureja gooseberry, is a species of flowering plant in the family Grossulariaceae, which includes currants and gooseberries. It is considered to be closely related to Ribes aciculare and shares several morphological characteristics with that species.

Like other Ribes species, R. burejense is particularly susceptible to honey fungus.

Other Ribes plants

American black currant · Golden currant · Hillside gooseberry · Wax currant · Spreading gooseberry · Miccosukee gooseberry · Skunk currant · Northern black currant · Whiteflower currant · Prickly currant · Laurel Leaved Currant · Trailing black currant

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ribes burejense 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.

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