Ribes thacherianum
Santa Cruz gooseberry
Family GrossulariaceaeAlso called Santa Cruz Island gooseberry
About
Ribes thacherianum, the Santa Cruz Island gooseberry, is a rare spiny gooseberry found only on Santa Cruz Island off the coast of California.
Care at a glance
- Pet safety
- Not recorded. We have no source on whether this plant is safe for cats, dogs or other pets — that is not the same as safe. Keep it out of reach until you have checked.
- People
- Not recorded.
- Mature size
- Up to about 2.5 m (8 ft) tall.
Field notes
Morphology
An erect shrub up to about 2.5 m with softly hairy, bristly stems and hard spines at many nodes. Leaves 2–3 cm long have five shallow, bluntly toothed lobes. One or two flowers have reflexed pink sepals around a tube of white petals, with protruding stamens and stigmas. The purple berry, about 7 mm, is densely bristly and hairy.
Distribution & habitat
Endemic to Santa Cruz Island in the northern Channel Islands, within Channel Islands National Park, in pine woodland of coastal ravines.
Conservation
Rare, being confined to a single island.
Habitat
- Altitude
- Not recorded
- Altitude class
- —
- Native to
- United States
Cultivation
- Difficulty
- Not recorded
Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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