A species of the coasts of southern California and northern Baja California. It is also found on the Channel Islands and sometimes known as the Island Gooseberry.Grossulariaceae family.
Summary[edit] Description: You know how sometimes something you've had hanging around for years that you'd almost forgotten about comes to light and takes you by surprise? I picked up a bit of this in what was the old Probus Demonstration Garden down in Devon when I first began gardening when I was about 23 (about 25 years ago) I think I sneaked a shoot (one very like the one coming towards us in this picture) into my bag and kept it in a plastic bag for the rest of the week's camping. I knew very little about plants and nothing about propagation but it nevertheless rooted when I got home and just about survived for years in my parent's garden in Shoreham, Sussex, where luckily a few years ago I took another cutting before it finally gave up the ghost. I now have two of them - one growing very slowly against the south west wall here and this one that has been kept in the greenhouse. Date: 23 March 2011, 09:42. Source: Ribes viburnifolium. Author: peganum from Small Dole, England.
Ribes viburnifolium—Catalina perfume. Included in the CNPS Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants on list 1B.2 (rare, threatened, or endangered in CA and elsewhere). Listed by the State of California as imperiled. Also called Santa Catalina Island currant or evergreen currant (a name it shares with some other Ribes species). Found on Santa Catalina Island, at Imperial Beach in San Diego county and in Northwestern Baja California. The "perfume" refers to a spicy apple odor some people notice after a rain. Photographed at Regional Parks Botanic Garden located in Tilden Regional Park near Berkeley, CA
Summary[edit] Description: Not in any way dramatic but pleasant little flowers. Date: 23 March 2011, 09:41. Source: Ribes viburnifolium. Author: peganum from Small Dole, England.
Summary[edit] Description: Not a very hardy species it seems. This Californian evergreen seems to get cut back by frost but I think it might do well in a sheltered spot once it reaches a certain 'critical mass'. The original plant in Devon I recall covered quite a big area. Date: 23 March 2011, 09:42. Source: Ribes viburnifolium. Author: peganum from Small Dole, England.
Summary[edit] Description: A species of the coasts of southern California and northern Baja California. It is also found on the Channel Islands and sometimes known as the Island Gooseberry. Grossulariaceae family. Date: 7 July 2007, 03:17. Source: Ribes viburnifolium-- the Evergreen Currant. Author: Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Botanical specimen in the San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden - in El Chorro Regional Park, San Luis Obispo, California, USA. Date: 16 November 2013, 20:28:11. Source: Own work. Author: Daderot.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Ribes viburnifolium in the San Francisco Botanical Garden. Date: 19 September 2016, 03:12:38. Source: Own work. Author: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Ribes viburnifolium at the Wild Animal Park, Escondido, California, USA. Identified by sign. Date: 3 April 2009. Source: Own work. Author: Stickpen. Permission(Reusing this file): released to public domain.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Ribes viburnifolium in the San Francisco Botanical Garden. Date: 19 September 2016, 03:23:27. Source: Own work. Author: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz.
