Ribes Ribes Ribes is a genus of about 150 known species of flowering plants native throughout the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. It is usually treated as the only genus in the family Grossulariaceae, but a few taxonomists place the gooseberry species in a separate genus of "Grossularia". Sometimes "Ribes" is instead included in the family Saxifragaceae. The genus "Ribes" includes the edible currants (blackcurrant, redcurrant, white currant), the gooseberry, and several hybrid varieties. It should not be confused with the dried currant used in cakes and puddings, which is a small-fruited cultivar of grape (Zante currant). "Ribes" gives its
Ribes colandina Ribes colandina Ribes colandina is a species of currant found only in Perú. "Ribes colandina" differs from "Ribes andicola" in uniformly dark red flowers (petals red, not orange-yellow as in "R. andicola"), black instead of yellow fruits and wider, more deeply lobed leaves. "Ribes colandina" is a dioecious shrub approximately tall; densely to moderately tomentose from simple, curly trichomes long and with scattered subsessile glands, especially on young shoots and the abaxial leaf surface. Its petiole is long, wide; its stipules well differentiated, united with the petiole for . Inflorescences are terminal on short lateral shoots (brachyblasts); racemes pendent with