Jostaberry Jostaberry The jostaberry ("Ribes" × "nidigrolaria") is a complex-cross fruit bush in the genus "Ribes", involving three original species, the black currant "R. nigrum", the North American coastal black gooseberry "R. divaricatum", and the European gooseberry "R. uva-crispa". It is similar to "Ribes × culverwellii", the Jochelbeere, which is descended from just two of these species, "R. nigrum" and "R. uva-crispa". The cultivated plants are tetraploid. They are descended from two separate first-generation crosses, both of which produced very few fruit. Fertile tetraploids were produced using colchicine. The name "Jostaberry" was created via combining the German words for blackcurrant and
Rheum ribes 3-0-rutinoside were isolated from the shoots of Syrian rhubarb. "Rheum ribes" is main food plant of a hairstreak butterfly (Rhubarb Hairstreak "Callophrys mystaphia"; Turkish name: "ışgınzümrütü" [lit. 'Rhubarb Emerald']) in Iğdır, Van, Hakkâri, Kars, and Siirt provinces in eastern Turkey. "Rheum ribes" leaves is food plant of Xylena exsoleta moth in Van Province, Turkey. Rheum ribes Rheum ribes, the Syrian rhubarb or currant-fruited rhubarb, rhubarb-currant, warted-leaved rhubarb, warty-leaved rhubarb, rhubarb of Babilonia 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 distributed in