Hairy Flower Too. Coastal Black Gooseberry, Ribes divaricatum Douglas, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Even when still a lad, I had a taste for Gooseberries and unlike some I didn't peel off their hairy skin to eat them. I rather like its tartness, in fact. If you look closely at the photo, you'll be able to see that the inner works of the flower are hairy as well. That flower is c. 12-14 mm in length.
This is the Coastal Black Gooseberry, Ribes divaricatum Douglas, from the 'vicinities of Indian villages' near the northwest coasts of America. It was first described by Scottish botanist David Douglas (1799-1834), who died so tragically on Hawai'i's Mauna Kea (www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/5557704063/in/photolis...). In the service of the Horticultural Society of London, he published this find of his in its transactions of 1830. Three quarters of a century later in 1907, Douglas's name was attached to the Latin by Eduard von Glinka Janczewski (1846-1918), botanist at Kraków, Poland, and an expert on Ribes.
Hairy Flower Too. Coastal Black Gooseberry, Ribes divaricatum Douglas, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Even when still a lad, I had a taste for Gooseberries and unlike some I didn't peel off their hairy skin to eat them. I rather like its tartness, in fact. If you look closely at the photo, you'll be able to see that the inner works of the flower are hairy as well. That flower is c. 12-14 mm in length.
This is the Coastal Black Gooseberry, Ribes divaricatum Douglas, from the 'vicinities of Indian villages' near the northwest coasts of America. It was first described by Scottish botanist David Douglas (1799-1834), who died so tragically on Hawai'i's Mauna Kea (www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/5557704063/in/photolis...). In the service of the Horticultural Society of London, he published this find of his in its transactions of 1830. Three quarters of a century later in 1907, Douglas's name was attached to the Latin by Eduard von Glinka Janczewski (1846-1918), botanist at Kraków, Poland, and an expert on Ribes.